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OssanAmerica
This is a complex case. The lawyer wasn't being persecuted/discriminated for her ethnic background. She received the ire of many because of her position that the J-gov should provide public subsidies to North Korean schools in Japan, just like other schools. I have no doubt that she angered both Japanese and ethnic Korean Japanese alike with this stance. And, their demands that she be disbarred were not accepted. So her atual "damages" were that she suffered "emotional distress". Well that happens if you choose an unpopular position and go public with it. So who has to pay the awarded JY 1,000,000? People who simply expressed their views and opinions that they shouldn't have to subsidize schools that have photos of the Kims at the front of every classroom and believe that the Korean penninsula must be unified under the DPRK.?
Tom San
Public subsidies (our tax money) for pro-Pyongyang schools in Japan?
No, way. Let Kim pay out of his pockets with change left over from his ICBM projects.
Septim Dynasty
Hating Koreans will remain the national pastime of Japanese people.
Kyo wa heiwa dayo ne
@OssanAmerica
Around 1 million yen .
not - JY 1,000,000
it helps to pay attention to details.
Mark
Justice will always PREVAIL it's only a matter of time.
Mark
Presiding Judge Toru Matsumura rejected the group's argument that their requests for disciplinary action were not intended to racially discriminate against the lawyer, saying that they had used "strong language such as 'acts of treachery' in their condemnation.
If this is NOT discriminatory then I don't know what discrimination is!!
Kazuaki Shimazaki
Requesting disciplinary action is beyond expressing a view and opinion, but a request for active harm to be inflicted on the lawyer for her opinion and work.
Rodney
@tomsan you do know that NK has never done anything wrong to Japan, and Japan wasn’t involved in USA failed war right. These are children who deserve education. What’s your beef with NK related innocent kids?
rainyday
Its important to note that the defendants weren't just "simply expressing their views and opinions" but rather were abusing the Bar Association's complaint procedure to try to have this person disciplined (ie have her law license suspended) for her views.
That complaint procedure isn't just a thing for random members of the public to lodge complaints against lawyers whose politics they don't like. Its a professional disciplinary mechanism which is meant to be used by clients of lawyers who have done things like cheating their clients or other acts of professional misconduct. Using it to launch a political witch hunt against someone is a pretty egregious abuse of the system.
kennyG
Really? So who are all those families still waiting for the returns of abductees?
Besides, these kids could receive proper education at any other schools for almost free nowadays if they chose to do so
kennyG
If Japan is discriminatory toward Koreans, they wouldn't be working as officially licensed lawyers registered at BAR association in Japan in the first place.
Tom San
North Korea should pay then.
Simple as that.
garypen
Ummm... 1,000,000 is 1 million.
OssanAmerica
It helps to learn how to read and count. You really out did yourself this time.
OssanAmerica
Then you don't know what discrimination is. Saying that someone is guilty of an "act of treachery" is not "discrimination".
OssanAmerica
Then you don't know what discrimination is. Saying that someone is guilty of an "act of treachery" is not "discrimination".
OssanAmerica
And the Bar Association rejected their request. Because it was rejected, there was no "abuse". Those people were not barred from making that request.
kennyG
I didn't bother to know if it was , or .
rainyday
And now a court of law has found that it did in fact constitute an abuse and has ordered them to pay damages as a result.
painkiller
kennyGToday 02:05 pm JST
ethnic Korean lawyer
Doesn't say if she is a Japanese citizen or not.
Up to a few years ago, non-Japanese citizens were not allowed to become 弁護士.
kennyG
Thanks but I rarely post here without referring to original news source. All of many those report her to be a Zainichi Korean. If she is a Japanese, she is a Japanese and not Zainichi any longer.
So..? Non-Korean citizens were still not allowed to become 弁護士 in both Koreas, not to mention, Vice chairman of 日弁連 is a Zainichi Korean
painkiller
kennyGToday 08:14 pm JST
Ok, thanks, didn't know about the Zainichi reference.
It's not a so or not so comment. I'm just filling in the gap as to why I was wondering if she was a Japanese citizen.
One discriminative matter I do see with bengoshi in Japan is that their lapel pin is bigger than the lapel pin for foreign-registered lawyers.
OssanAmerica
And it will be overturned on Appeal. Because people who were not barred, restricted or refrained from making such requests to the Bar Association did so, and were correctly rejected.
rainyday
Not much of a ground for appeal.
People are not barred, restricted or refrained from calling the police to complain about someone either for that matter, but if you do it 900 times to report someone just for saying something you disagree with you should expect some consequences.
OssanAmerica
rainydayJuly 7 10:12 pm JST
Plenty of grounds for an appeal. You are imagining that the people who complained to the Bar Association did so repeatedly 900 times. Which is absurd as it doesn't take multiple compaints for them to address it.
In your "calling police" analogy, the consequence will be exactly what happened with the Bar Association, the report will be dismissed.
kennyG
It’s not statistics but just survey. Regardless, if you could link either statistics or survey that support your reasoning like in the above, I appreciate it.