Court tells novelist Yuu, company to stop publication

Court tells novelist Yuu, company to stop publication

Miri Yuu, winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1997 and a third-generation Korean resident in Japan, speaks to the press in Tokyo on June 22 after the Tokyo District Court ordered her and publishing house Shinchosha Co. to stop publication of her short novel and to pay 1.3 million yen in damages to a friend of Yuu's for violation of privacy.

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