Court rejects claim over outed gay student’s death

A court on Wednesday rejected a damages suit filed against a university in Tokyo by the parents of a graduate law student, who died after he was outed as gay by another student in 2015, reports Kyodo.

The parents sued Hitotsubashi University, claiming the state-run university failed to respond properly to the outing of the 25-year-old that led to his death. But the Tokyo District Court ruled the university had not failed in its responsibility to secure a safe environment for its students, with presiding Judge Masanori Suzuki saying there were no issues with the way professors and staff members had dealt with the situation.

The student was exposed as gay by the other student to a group of about 10 peers on messaging app Line in June 2015. Two months later, the student suffered a panic attack in class and left before fatally falling from a university building. He had been asking the university to allow him to switch classes, according to the complaint.
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