Tokyo gov't, state ordered to compensate for illegal investigation

A Japanese court on Wednesday ordered the Tokyo metropolitan government and the state to compensate the president of a Yokohama-based company and others for an unlawful investigation into alleged illegal export of items capable of producing biological weapons.The Tokyo District Court awarded compensation totaling some 160 million yen ($1.1 million) to Masaaki Okawara, 74, president of machinery maker Ohkawara Kakohki Co., Junji Shimada, one of its former directors and the family of former adviser Shizuo Aishima, who died in February 2021 after falling ill during detainment.In the trial, whi…READ FULL ARTICLE