Actor-singer Tomohisa Yamashita is most-followed Japanese male artiste on Instagram

Are you following Tomohisa Yamashita on IG? Tomohisa Yamashita/Instagram

Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates used to ban its artists from having social media accounts.

However, it relented in May last year (2019) and actor-singer Tomohisa Yamashita was its first artist to set up an Instagram account. It attracted more than one million followers in one day.