OSAKA — The Osaka District Court ordered the Tokyo-based publisher Shinchosha to pay 2.5 million yen in damages Wednesday to a 20-year-old man indicted for a murder he allegedly committed as a minor, for carrying his name and photo in one of its publications.
The man is accused of stabbing to death a 5-year-old girl and seriously injuring her mother and a high school girl in January last year. The man was 19 years old at the time of attack.
The publisher's monthly magazine, Shincho 45, revealed the man's name and photo in its March 1998 issue. The Juvenile Law states that names of apprehended criminals and suspects under 20 must be withheld by the press.