Keigo Oyamada, the musician better known as Cornelius, is often regarded as one of Japan’s best rock music exports. But his prolific career was marred with a bit of controversy after a couple of interviews he did in the mid-1990s when he confessed to having bullied and assaulted students with intellectual disabilities when he was in school. Oyamada has issued a few apologies in the two decades since then, including one notable instance in 2021, when he resigned as a composer for the Tokyo Olympics. (He later claimed that some of the alleged bullying incidents had been blown out of proportion.)
