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402:. Kano sued the author for defamation. In September 2001, the Tokyo District Court ordered the author to pay Kano damages, for infringing on Kano's privacy and dishonoring her reputation. In handing down the ruling, Presiding Judge Yoshihiro Katayama said that Sato used "blunt and excessive" expression in portraying Kano."
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Teruo K., father of Kyoko Kano, allegedly accosted the Kano sisters with an umbrella in a Tokyo underground parking lot complex on 25 December 2007, after the sisters had allegedly refused to pay him back an undisclosed amount of money. The money was lent by Teruo to Kyoko more than 15 years ago. He
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In August 2005, Kyoko and Mika Kano sued
Japanese actress Miri Okada for defamation based on Okada's televised June 2005 claim that the two sisters unsuccessfully tried to seduce Okada's husband, Norio Yaginuma. The sisters were awarded compensation by the Tokyo District Court in July 2006. Judge
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with an introduction by non-fiction writer Yuko
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at age 19, had been seeking fame for a long time. With the money coming from Kyoko's family, both "sisters" appearing regularly on
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