In a trial in which the Buraku Liberation Alliance and others were appealing to the publisher of Kawasaki City, which planned to publish a book summarizing the names of the places of the affected villages nationwide and published the posted information on the website, "promoting discrimination". The Tokyo District Court ordered not to publish information such as place names in books and on the web, and to compensate for more than 4.8 million yen.
About 230 people from the Buraku Liberation League and the Buraku Liberation League have the names of the Buraku villages nationwide listed in the books planned to be published by the publisher "Jigensha" in Kawasaki City. As it is also published on the web, we asked publishers and representatives to stop publishing and publishing the website.
The defendant claimed freedom of expression, but in a ruling, Judge Shinji Narita of the Tokyo District Court said, "In light of historical circumstances, there is an address and registered domicile in the area where the Buraku were allegedly discriminated against. If it is known, it is considered that there is a risk of discrimination and damage to the victims. "
In addition, we ordered that the list and personal information of each prefecture including the plaintiff's address and registered domicile should not be published in any way, including publishing and websites, as well as broadcasting and visualization through third parties. rice field.
In addition, we have ordered compensation of more than 4.8 million yen for disclosing information on the Web so far.
On the other hand, the proceedings were dismissed for those who released the information themselves and those who died.
Defendant's publisher "I think I will appeal"
A representative of the defendant's publisher, Jigensha, held a press conference on the Internet and said, "It's a half-finished decision. I will openly disclose the part that was not made public. I think I will appeal."