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7. Nov. 2004 -- Masatomo Yamazaki
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TOKYO, Japan: Masatomo Yamazaki
formally apologized to a former city council member in
Tokyo District Court after being sued for defamation and
infringement of privacy.
The former city councilor sued Yamazaki after he wrote
in a 2001 tome that the man was connected to the Japanese
mafia.
The former city councilor was high school classmates with
a man involved with the mafia. He appeared as a character
witness for the former classmate, in hopes that the man
could be rehabilitated.
Yamazaki promised that he would never write a similar
defamatory article. “I apologize to the plaintiff
for having caused him trouble,” he said in court.
His statement will be kept as official document in the
case.
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(From Seikyo Shimbun,
Nov.14, 2004)
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