By ERI NIIYA/ Staff Writer
August 12, 2021 at 14:06 JST
Kiichi Okaguchi, who was a judge on the Tokyo High Court at the time, speaks about the Supreme Court's decision to caution him for a controversial social media post he made at a news conference in Tokyo in October 2018. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
The Judge Impeachment Court has suspended a high court judge from the bench until it hands down a ruling over social media posts he made that were deemed "offensive," which resulted in his impeachment. [Read More]
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