Seoul-based Japanese reporter accused of defaming South Korea’s presidentTatsuya Kato, a Japanese journalist who is the Tokyo newspaper Sankei Shimbun’s Seoul correspondent, is the subject of a criminal libel prosecution over a story about South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s actions at the time of Sewol ferry’s sinking on 16 April. The newspaper had no inkling that Kato’s story would elicit such a heavy-handed reaction from the president’s supporters when it was pos
