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Tokyo, April 11 (Jiji Press) Japan s Justice Ministry is considering reviewing the statutory penalty for insult after the death of professional wrestler and reality show cast member Hana Kimura, who suffered online slander.
The ministry started the move in response to increasing calls for toughening the penalty from online slander victims and others.
Kimura, then 22, died in an apparent suicide in May last year after seeing many insulting comments on Twitter over her behavior in popular reality television show Terrace House.
Tokyo prosecutors recently gave summary indictments to two men for posting such comments. Tokyo Summary Court fined both men 9,000 yen.
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters at a news conference in the Diet building on Dec. 24. (Koichi Ueda)
Prosecutors decided not to indict former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe over payments for Tokyo hotel banquets to entertain supporters in his electoral district but brought in a summary indictment against Abe’s top government-paid secretary.
The aide was indicted for failing to report expenses to partly finance the banquets held on the eves of annual cherry blossom-viewing parties hosted by the prime minister.
This constitutes a violation of the political funds control law, according to the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office.