Koizumi Sued Over Rape Allegation ("Symbolic damages")

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http://www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/739047.cms

Koizumi sued over rape allegations

AFP< MONDAY, JUNE 14, 2004 09:38:38 PM >


TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Monday admitted he was being sued over rape allegations published by a tabloid magazine, but dismissed the accusation as totally false.



"It really staggers me that someone filed such a false suit,” Koizumi told a parliamentary committee after an opposition lawmaker brought up Internet chat about the suit and other rape speculation on a bulletin board website in questions.



A Tokyo resident who identified himself as Aiji Kimura said on his website that he had lodged the civil suit against Koizumi with the Tokyo District Court on March 30, questioning his fitness to be prime minister.



Citing a tabloid magazine report alleging that Koizumi raped a woman in 1967 when he was a university student, Kimura, who is in his 60s, said he was seeking 10,000 yen (90 dollars) in symbolic damages.


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