TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Supreme Court has rejected a man's demand that a Google web search bringing up reports of his arrest for child prostitution be removed, the first ever such top court decision in Japan, media reported on Wednesday.
The man was arrested more than five years ago for paying a female high school student to conduct an indecent act and was fined 500,000 yen ($4,500), the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported.
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