Weird Tales of Self-Restraint No. 16: Heroes are Hard to Find
On July 2, 21-year-old actor Takayasu Sugiura was kind of vindicated when a man who had earlier accused him of assault and extortion retracted the allegation.
According to the original complaint, in October of 2000 Sugiura attacked the plaintiff, a vocational school student, in an Osaka parking lot over money the plaintiff had supposedly stolen. The young man's injuries required medical attention. Moreover, Sugiura allegedly made the victim deposit 450,000 yen in his bank account.