Editorial

14:00 JST, November 11, 2025

Society will fall into ruin if acts that defame by spreading unverified information are allowed.

Society must share the understanding that verbal violence that harms people constitutes a crime.

In connection with a whistleblowing issue at the Hyogo prefectural government, police arrested Takashi Tachibana, leader of the political organization NHK Party on suspicion of defamation for damaging the reputation of a deceased former prefectural assembly member by spreading fake rumors.

Tachibana is suspected of damaging the former assembly member’s reputation by saying during a street speech last December that the former assembly member was under police investigation, and by posting on social media in January after the former assembly member’s death that “the former assembly member was scheduled to be arrested.”

The former assembly........

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