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>>Japan — Criminal and civil; truth is not always a defense.
>Libel laws in Japan are meant to protect honor and reputation, according to a Feb. 2016 article by Kaitlin Stainbrook, noting that a Google search auto-complete had to be changed by court order after a criminal record kept popping up with a man’s name. It didn’t matter whether he had a criminal past.
>“In Japanese libel and slander cases, the truth won’t necessarily help you. Instead, it all comes down to reputation. The Japanese word for defamation is meiyokison 名誉毀損, which, when broken down, literally means “damaged honor”. Even if a published statement is 100% true, it can still be considered defamatory if it irrevocably hurts the subject’s reputation and oftentimes the question of truth doesn’t really enter the equation.”