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Former Asahi reporter files suit over ‘comfort women’ issue

音声ダウンロード

A former Asahi Shimbun reporter Jan. 9 filed a libel suit against a major publisher and a noted scholar of Korean studies.

Takashi Uemura is seeking yen16.5 million in damages from Bungeishunju Ltd. and Tsutomu Nishioka, a professor of Korean studies at Tokyo Christian University, saying they erroneously claimed he fabricated stories about “comfort women.”

At a news conference in Tokyo, Uemura said their “unfounded slander” prompted some anonymous nationalists to threaten his employer, and violated the privacy of his family. (The Japan Times)

元朝日新聞記者、文芸春秋などを名誉棄損で提訴

元朝日新聞記者の植村隆氏が１月９日、慰安婦をめぐる報道で同氏がねつ造を行なったとしたとして、文芸春秋と西岡力東京基督教大教授を名誉棄損で提訴した。

The Japan Times ST: January 23, 2015