Breaking the spiral of silence: News and social media dynamics on sexual abuse scandal in the Japanese entertainment industry

• Tsukasa Tanihara ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tanihara@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp (TT); kunihirom@acm.org (KM)

  Affiliation Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5428-2312

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• Mitsuki Irihara,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation New York University, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Taichi Murayama,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation YOKOHAMA National University, Yokohama, Japan

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• Mitsuo Yoshida,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0735-1116

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• Fujio Toriumi,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana, USA

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• Kunihiro Miyazaki

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tanihara@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp (TT); kunihirom@acm.org (KM)

  Affiliation Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana, USA

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