The ruling was in line with what she believed happened to her father in a police interrogation room five years ago. The court also took into account almost all forensic evidence presented by her legal team.
But when the Yokohama District Court ruled Friday that her father was shot to death by a police officer on Nov. 8, 1997, the 27-year-old magazine editor still could not believe it.
"When the judge said it was a police officer who killed my father, I could not believe that the court had listened to claims by an average citizen over those by police," the daughter, who asked not to be named, told The Japan Times on Tuesday.