The Supreme Court on Friday overturned a Nagoya High Court ruling that ordered a weekly magazine to pay compensation for violating the privacy of a man accused of taking part in murders in 1994 when he was a minor.
It sent the case back to the high court.
The Nagoya High Court in 2000 ordered Bungei Shunju, publisher of the weekly Shukan Bunshun, to pay 300,000 yen to the man for a story on the case using a pseudonym similar to his real name.