A TV production company was handed a court order Wednesday to pay 1 million yen in damages to a Tokyo-based citizens' group for misleading its members about the content of a program on the "comfort women" issue.
However, the Tokyo District Court ruled that public broadcaster NHK, which aired the program produced by Documentary Japan Inc., does not have to pay damages to the group, Women Against Violence in War Network Japan (VAWW-NET Japan).
The program, shown in January 2001, was about a citizens' tribunal held the year before on Japan's responsibility concerning the ordeal of women forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops before and during World War II.