A Japanese court on Thursday ruled in favor of a journalist who sued ruling party lawmaker Mio Sugita for liking several tweets that she claimed were defamatory to her, the first such verdict in Japan.
Tokyo High Court ordered Sugita to pay 550,000 yen ($3,660) in damages to Shiori Ito, a journalist and an icon of Japan’s #MeToo movement, for liking defamatory posts from other users on Twitter, Kyodo News reported.
Ito had sued Sugita for 2.2 million yen ($14,640) for liking defamatory tweets about her, claiming that the Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker’s actions offended her dignity considering her prominence and large Twitter following….