By TAKASHI ENDO/ Staff Writer
July 9, 2024 at 14:02 JST
Shinji Ishimaru speaks after finishing second in the Tokyo gubernatorial election on July 7. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
The Supreme Court finalized an order for Shinji Ishimaru, runner-up in the Tokyo gubernational election, to pay 730,000 yen ($4,533) to a printing company for posters and fliers used when he entered politics in 2020.
The top court’s Second Petty Bench, headed by Justice Koichi Kusano, rejected Ishimaru’s final appeal and ordered him to pay unpaid fees on July 5, two days before the Tokyo election.
According to the ruling, printing costs for the posters and fliers that Ishimaru used for the Akitakata mayoral election in Hiroshima Prefecture in August 2020 reached 1,080,000 yen.
He won the election and became mayor for the first time.
Akitakata city provided 350,000 yen of the printing costs with public funds, and the company asked Ishimaru to cover the remaining 730,000 yen.
However, Ishimaru refused, claiming, “There was agreement that I don’t pay anything except the public funds.”
The Hiroshima District Court ruled there was no such agreement and ordered Ishimaru to pay the costs.
The Hiroshima High Court upheld the district court’s judgment.
The Supreme Court on July 5 ruled that Ishimaru has no legal justification to appeal the case.
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