Japan troll fined $12,000 in Netflix suicide case

TOKYO: A man who tweeted insults at a Japanese reality TV star after her suicide was fined $12,000 on Wednesday after his comments had sparked concern over cyberbullying.

The civil lawsuit for defamation was filed by the mother of Hana Kimura, a cast member of the Netflix show “Terrace House”, who took her life a year ago aged 22.

A lawyer representing Kimura’s mother Kyoko Kimura told AFP that the court had ordered the man — whose name has not been publicly revealed — to pay 1.29 million yen.