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Businessman Yuji Mizoguchi, COO of BreakingDown, revealed on his X account on October 16 that he is pursuing disclosure requests to identify the people behind slanderous posts about him online, and published an apology letter from one of the identified posters. The letter’s author works at a factory in Shizuoka Prefecture and explained that after paying rent and electricity out of his salary he has no money left over, and that resentment toward prominent or wealthy people on social media led him to pile on to other people’s posts. On 5channel threads, opinions clashed: some doubted the letter’s authenticity because it was “too specific” to be real, while others debated whether the compensation demands and process were appropriate.
Yuji Mizoguchi, a businessman who serves as COO of the fighting event “BreakingDown” among other roles, updated his X account on October 16. He revealed that he has filed requests to disclose the identities of people who posted slanderous content about him on social media and, having identified the posters, is now moving forward with damage claims against them one by one. He also published an apology letter he says was sent by one of the people identified.
The letter was written by someone who says they work at a factory in Shizuoka Prefecture. He explained that once rent and electricity are paid out of his salary, almost nothing is left, and that his routine is to come home, drink cheap alcohol, and go to sleep. He said he resented people who stand out or are wealthy on social media, and ended up piling on to other people’s insults as a result.
He apologized, saying he’d thought lightly, “Everyone else is writing this stuff, so it should be fine if I do too,” but that he now deeply regrets it. Saying, “If I’d known it would come to this, I wish I’d never written anything in the first place,” he stated he will never do it again and plans to quit the internet altogether.
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What people said
What are YOU doing, if you can't even understand Japanese?
That's seriously dumb. These days even homeless people in developing countries and remote tribes deep in Africa have smartphones. All that'll happen is everyone else stays online and hounds the one guy who isn't, broadcasting one-sided info to the world on whatever terms suit the people who are still online — making the world even creepier.
You'd have to testify in person in front of a judge, and the other side's lawyer would grill you too. Think you could handle that?
Who exactly, and what harm did you actually suffer? Even just the "what" would be fine.
Why even bother with the praise — just ignore everything they do.
You could just talk about it in a LINE group with friends, or chat about it over dinner at a family restaurant. Why do people feel the need to broadcast it to the whole world?
At this point that's textbook "usoshow" territory (slang for an obviously made-up sob story).
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That's way too cheap lol. Guess for you bottom-feeders this looks like a lot lol
Background and Key Points of the Debate
Requests to disclose sender information are a system based on the “Act on Court Procedures for Disclosure of Information Identifying Senders of Infringing Content” (formerly the Provider Liability Limitation Act), which lets a poster’s identity be determined through the courts. In recent years, more celebrities and companies have actually used this procedure to identify posters and move on to filing damage claims, and the publication of this apology letter appears to be part of that trend. The thread split mainly over two points. One was the credibility of the apology letter — many voiced doubt that it was “made up,” since the content was oddly specific. The other was the appropriateness of the compensation amount and process, with some questioning why an out-of-court settlement would cost more than a court ruling, while others argued that those with greater reach to spread information should bear greater responsibility. While identifying and publicizing slanderous posters can itself act as a deterrent, there’s also a clear unease at seeing even the poster’s personal living circumstances exposed to the public.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5channel (Entertainment & Sports News+) thread “[Combat Sports] “Everyone else is writing it, so I figured it was fine…” — Apology Letter from Person Who Slandered Yuji Mizoguchi Published.”
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