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On July 23, Tomohide Chikayama
Byodo-ji chief priest of Nichiren Shoshu’s Byodo-ji
Temple in Kishiwada City, Osaka, and two lay believers
decided not appeal a verdict upheld by the Osaka High
Court finding them guilty of willful defamation against
the New Komeito party.
New Komeito filed suit against the three defendants in
2000, after they distributed leaflets in Kishiwada alleging
that the party and Soka Gakkai had conspired to ruin the
reputation of Katsuhiko Shirakawa, a former Liberal Democratic
Party lawmaker, because he has been a strident critic
of New Komeito-Soka Gakkai ties.
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