Tokyo High Court upholds ruling against novelist Yuu

Tokyo High Court upholds ruling against novelist Yuu

TOKYO, Japan - Novelist Miri Yuu, a second-generation Korean resident of Japan who won the coveted Akutagawa Prize in 1997, holds a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 15. Earlier in the day, the Tokyo High Court upheld a lower court decision ordering Yuu and the publishing house Shinchosha Co. to halt publication of a short novel and pay 1.3 million yen to a former friend of Yuu's for violating her privacy.

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