Japanese artist sues association over goldfish-filled phone box

An artist filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a local merchant association in the western Japan prefecture of Nara, alleging it had plagiarized one of his works featuring a telephone box filled with dozens of swimming goldfish.Nobuki Yamamoto, a 62-year-old artist from Iwaki in northeastern Japan's Fukushima Prefecture, is demanding compensation of 3.3 million yen ($30,000) from the association for displaying a similar phone box in a shopping district in the city of Yamatokoriyama.Yamatokoriyama is known for its abundance of goldfish farms and as host of a nationwide goldfish scooping competi…READ FULL ARTICLE