I have the following sentence:
2019年に亡くなったジャニー喜多川氏から若いときに性被害を受けたと、ジャニーズ事務所のタレントだった人たちが言って、問題になっています。
I don't think the と in the first part of the sentence serves as a conditional, but I can't figure out what it is used for. The English translation doesn't help:
There has been an issue with former Johnny's Office talents saying they were sexually victimised by Mr Janie Kitagawa, who died in 2019, when they were young.
The と is quotative. 「～～と[人]が言う」(「[人]が～～と言う」) means "[person] says (that) ～～."
From this post:
The 「と」 in 「～～と言った」 must certainly be quotative, right? It is if it directly precedes 「言う」.
When you see or think you are seeing a quotative 「と」 , try putting in imaginary quotation marks the part of the sentence that looks like it is being quoted.
So you have:
『2019年に亡くなったジャニー喜多川氏から若いときに性被害を受けた。』と、ジャニーズ事務所のタレントだった人たちが言って...
The English translation looks good to me.
... former Johnny's Office talents saying "We were sexually victimised by Mr Janie Kitagawa, who died in 2019, when we were young."
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... former Johnny's Office talents saying they were sexually victimised by Mr Janie Kitagawa, who died in 2019, when they were young.
