{"id":14230,"date":"2016-10-18T11:56:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T21:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14230"},"modified":"2018-04-20T15:47:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T01:47:05","slug":"mainichi-court-orders-anti-korean-group-to-compensate-woman-over-hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14230","title":{"rendered":"Mainichi: Court orders anti-Korean group to compensate woman over hate speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. The third in a series (the first two are here<\/a> and here<\/a>) about developments after Japan\u2019s first hate speech was passed earlier this year.<\/a> Critics (naturally) decried it as a means to stifle freedom of speech, but I took exception to that, saying that it was a step in the right direction<\/a>, at least. This series of articles in the Mainichi Shinbun seem to bear that out, talking about the positive effects of the law, where once-daily hate rallies are down, xenophobic language is softened and made less normalized, administrative organs now have means of enforcement, and even court cases are ruling in favor of targeted victims. Good. For example, this next case ruling against officially-certified hate group Zaitokukai<\/a>, which even cites the UN CERD<\/a>! Bravo. Dr. ARUDOU, Debito<\/p>\n

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Court orders anti-Korean group to compensate woman over hate speech<\/strong>
\n September 28, 2016 (Mainichi Japan)<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/mainichi.jp\/english\/articles\/20160928\/p2a\/00m\/0na\/003000c<\/a><\/strong>
\nCourtesy of JK<\/p>\n

OSAKA — The Osaka District Court on Sept. 27 ordered a citizens’ group that holds hate speech rallies targeting Korean residents in Japan to pay 770,000 yen in compensation to a Korean woman over defamation carried out by the group and its former chairman.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Freelance writer Lee Sin Hae, 45, filed the lawsuit against “Zainichi Tokken o Yurusanai Shimin no Kai” (literally, “citizens’ group that does not forgive special rights for Korean residents of Japan,” or “Zaitokukai”) and its former chairman Makoto Sakurai, 44, demanding 5.5 million yen in compensation for defamation by fueling discrimination against Korean residents through hate speech campaigns.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the ruling, after Lee contributed an article criticizing hate speech to an online news site, Sakurai called her “an old Korean hag” at rallies his group organized in Kobe’s Sannomiya district and targeted her on Twitter using a discriminatory word for a Korean person sometime between 2013 and 2014 when he was the head of the group.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Presiding Judge Tamami Masumori acknowledged that some of the things Sakurai had said and tweeted invaded her personal rights and concluded such actions constituted insults banned under the U.N. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

At the same time, Lee’s claim of emotional distress caused by the spread of information posted online was denied.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Zaitokukai released a comment, saying the ruling was “one-sided and unjust.” Both the plaintiff and defendant are considering filing an appeal.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/strong>: \u00a0The case was appealed. \u00a0And Lee won again in 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This is the third article of three talking about the progress being made under the recent adoption of local laws against hate speech in Japan, in this case a court case against official hate group Zaitokukai:<\/p>\n

Mainichi: The Osaka District Court on Sept. 27 ordered a citizens’ group that holds hate speech rallies targeting Korean residents in Japan to pay 770,000 yen in compensation to a Korean woman over defamation carried out by the group and its former chairman. Freelance writer Lee Sin Hae, 45, filed the lawsuit against “Zainichi Tokken o Yurusanai Shimin no Kai” (literally, “citizens’ group that does not forgive special rights for Korean residents of Japan,” or “Zaitokukai”) and its former chairman Makoto Sakurai, 44, demanding 5.5 million yen in compensation for defamation by fueling discrimination against Korean residents through hate speech campaigns.<\/p>\n

According to the ruling, after Lee contributed an article criticizing hate speech to an online news site, Sakurai called her “an old Korean hag” at rallies his group organized in Kobe’s Sannomiya district and targeted her on Twitter using a discriminatory word for a Korean person sometime between 2013 and 2014 when he was the head of the group. Presiding Judge Tamami Masumori acknowledged that some of the things Sakurai had said and tweeted invaded her personal rights and concluded such actions constituted insults banned under the U.N. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,52,5,15,13,68,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pinprick-protests","category-hate-speech","category-human-rights","category-lawsuits","category-media","category-victories","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14977,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14230\/revisions\/14977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}