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The Daily Yomiuri
July 21, 1999
Kyodo News
The Tokyo District Court on Monday ordered publishing company Kodansha Ltd. to pay 2 million yen and issue an apology over an article about the death of a municipal assembly member from Higashi Murayama, western Tokyo.
The lay religious organization Soka Gakkai had sued Kodansha and bereaved family members of the assembly member, seeking \100 million in damages. The organization claimed the article in the Sept. 23, 1995, edition of Kodansha’s Weekly Gendai magazine had damaged its reputation.
“The article provided readers with the impression that the assembly member was murdered by Soka Gakkai and lowered the social assessment of (the organization),” presiding Judge Taichi Kajimura said in handing down the ruling.
According to the ruling, the weekly magazine published an article titled, “Focusing on the mysteries of the strange death of a female Higashi-Murayama municipal assembly member,” over the death of the assembly member, who fell to her death from a building in Higashi Murayama on Sept. 1, 1995.
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