Five years ago, a company in Kitakyushu City complained that he was disgraced by writing a lie on the net that he was working for a driver who had an accident that killed and injured four people in his family while driving on the Tomei Expressway. At the trial, the Fukuoka District Court sentenced the five writers to a compensation of more than 1.7 million yen.
The construction company and the president of Kitakyushu City are accused of dangerous driving fatalities and injuries over an accident in which four people in a family riding a wagon car on the Tomei Expressway in Kanagawa Prefecture were killed or injured while driving. Although it was unrelated to the above, he filed a lawsuit for being posted on a bulletin board on the Internet as if he was at work and was disgraced, and asked the five people who wrote it for compensation.
In a ruling on the 18th, Fukuoka District Court Judge Sataka Matsuba said, "After the false information was disseminated by writing, an unspecified number of people were injured on the plaintiff's company online. It lowered its social reputation, "and ordered compensation of 1.76 million yen for the five people.
Apart from this civil trial, the five have been charged with criminal liability for defamation and have been fined.