A Tokyo court found a man guilty Friday of defaming on social media a person whose wife and daughter were killed in a high-profile 2019 car crash in the capital.
The Tokyo District Court sentenced Junichi Yuri to one year in prison, suspended for five years, and 29 days of detention without labor for defaming Takuya Matsunaga through tweets in March 2022 that accused the bereaved man of campaigning only to garner attention for himself.
Yuri also posted other insults targeting Matsunaga and threatened in a tweet in August of that year to commit violence in the capital's Shinjuku or Akihabara districts, which was deemed as being disruptive to police duties, according to the ruling.