An external documentary, not insiders, broke the media conspiracy of silence.

Evidence

Kitagawa died in 2019 at age eighty-seven. Initially, Japanese media celebrated his influence on postwar culture. But when a BBC documentary corroborated decades of allegations, the omertà cracked. The Japanese media finally reported the long-known truth, and a subsequent internal investigation at Kitagawa’s agency uncovered 478 victims, 325 of whom demanded compensation—150 of whom had been company employees. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 587

Categorization

• SHARE: Specific figure set (478 victims, 325 demanding compensation) worth sending to someone tracking institutional abuse journalism.
• XREF: Parallels Epstein and other abuse networks where external investigation (BBC) rather than internal whistleblowing breaks the omertà.