Mother claims YouTuber led to son’s suicide in filed damages suit
The YouTuber uploaded a video last year arguing that the son was "a massive merger and acquisition scammer."
In Kyoto, Japan, the mother of a deceased man has filed a lawsuit against a YouTuber and two others, alleging that the video uploaded by the YouTuber caused her son's suicide. Saeko Nakano, 73, has filed a claim against Shinjuku 109 KENZO, whose real name is Miki Ikeda, and two others, Makoto Akagi and Yuki Yasuda. Ikeda, 28, is accused of uploading a video in June last year, stating that Nakano's son, Takuma, who was 36 at the time of his death, was a "massive merger and acquisition scammer."
Takuma took his own life the following month, following a dispute with the other two defendants over the sale of a company he had managed. Ikeda, who has a YouTube channel with 1.03 million subscribers and over 700 videos, has been arrested on suspicion of defaming Takuma's son, as well as Akagi and Yasuda for attempted extortion.
Nakano expressed her frustration at how people judged her son's character based solely on the video and called for the defendants to pay for their alleged crimes.
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