Japan: Prosecutors want 1.5 years for bulletin board comment · Global Voices
Chris Salzberg

2channel threads are commenting on news [ja] that prosecutors in Japan are asking for 1.5 years in the case of 23-year-old Atsushi Sugita's (杉田敦史) declaration on a bulletin board that he would “kill young girls”. Sugita said he did not intend to commit any crime and that in using the word “小女子”, he actually meant the reading “kōnago” (a type of fish).