YOKOHAMA, Sep 09 (News On Japan) –
The Yokohama District Court on Monday sentenced a former supervisor of Bigmotor’s Kawasaki department to a wonderful of 200,000 yen for damaging public property by chopping azaleas in entrance of the shop.
The defendant, Tai Magome (33), was charged with chopping six azalea bushes on the sidewalk in entrance of the previous Bigmotor Kawasaki department in Kanagawa Prefecture in October two years in the past.
At the time of the incident, Magome was the supervisor of the Kawasaki department.
In the ruling on the ninth, the Yokohama District Court said, “This was a bold and anti-normative act. The defendant’s compliance with the headquarters’ directive out of concern for demotion reflects self-preservation,” and handed down a responsible verdict with a wonderful of 200,000 yen.
This marks the primary verdict in a sequence of trials associated to incidents involving the previous Bigmotor firm.
Source: ANN