人種差別で高額慰謝料　１３０万円賠償命令―匿名ブログでコリアン中傷・東京高裁

　在日コリアンの家族を持つ神奈川県内の男子大学生（１８）が、ブログ上での差別的投稿で民族的アイデンティティーを傷つけられたなどとして、書き込んだ大分市の男性に３００万円の賠償を求めた訴訟の控訴審判決が１２日、東京高裁であった。白井幸夫裁判長（相沢哲裁判長代読）は「書き込みは極めて悪質」と判断した上で、一審横浜地裁川崎支部が男性に命じた賠償額９１万円を１３０万円に増額した。
　賠償額のうち１００万円は慰謝料で、学生の代理人弁護士によると、１回の書き込みに対しては異例の高額。判決は人種差別そのものを違法としており、ヘイトスピーチの抑止効果も期待できるという。（2021/05/12-20:59）

Tokyo High Court has ordered a man from Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, to pay 1.3 million yen in damages for posting on his blog discriminatory comments about Koreans living in Japan.
   The damages amount was raised from 910,000 yen ordered by the Kawasaki branch of Yokohama District Court in Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan. The plaintiff, an 18-year-old university student from Kanagawa whose family members are Koreans living in Japan, sought 3 million yen in damages from the man in Oita, claiming that his ethnic identify was damaged by the man's blog comments.
   "The posted comments were extremely vicious," Presiding Judge Yukio Shirai said when handing down the ruling on Wednesday.
   The damages amount, of which 1 million yen is compensation for mental suffering, is unusually high for one posting of comments, according to a lawyer for the plaintiff.
   As the latest ruling said racial discrimination itself is illegal, it is expected to have a deterrent effect on hate speech, the lawyer said.