Celebrity Kyoko Kano wins suit over privacy violation.TOKYO, Sept. 19 Kyodo The Tokyo District Court Tokyo District Court (東京地方裁判所; Tōkyō Chihō Saibansho) is a district court in Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. See also
Kano (kä`nō), family or school of Japanese painters. Kano Masanobu, c.1434–c.1530, the forerunner of the school, was attached to the shogun Yoshimasa's court. , a buxom celebrity, to pay the book's subject 5 million yen in damages, for infringing on Kano's privacy and dishonoring her reputation. In handing down the ruling, Presiding Judge presiding judge n. 1) in both state and federal appeals court, the judge who chairs the panel of three or more judges during hearings and supervises the business of the court. Yoshihiro Katayama said that author Shigeru Sato used ''blunt and excessive'' expression in portraying Kano, who frequently appears on TV, ''as a person who does not think of anything but sexual matters.'' Katayama also said that the author's intention was chiefly for commercial purposes. Kano had demanded 10 million yen in the suit. The ruling said that Sato published the book in April last year, in which he wrote about Kano's lifestyle from the viewpoint of a pet cat. Kyoko Kano and her younger sister Mika Kano often appear on television programs and are known in Japanese entertainment circles as the ''gorgeous shimai (sisters).'' The buxom sisters dress in a glamorous glam·or·ous also glam·our·ous adj. Full of or characterized by glamour. glam  or·ous·ly adv. , often revealing fashion.
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