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Court orders comedian to pay 400,000 yen for earlobe nibble
Utsunomiya Summary Court announced Tuesday it had sentenced restaurant owner and famous impersonator Masami Mita, better known by his stage name Eisaku Yazawa, to pay 400,000 yen in compensation to a comedian colleague for biting off one of his earlobes.
According to the indictment filed to the court, Mita bit off the right earlobe off of fellow comedian Kenji Tanaka, better known by his moniker “Tsuntsuku”, in an apartment house in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture. The injury took 3 weeks to heal.
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