In what’s no doubt one of the weirder lawsuits to come before the Japanese judicial system this summer, the Osaka High Court was recently tasked with deciding where the responsibility lies in an incident in which a ghost had its jaw broken by a karate master.
The lawsuit stems from an incident that took place over a decade ago. In September of 2011, a group of coworkers visited the Toei Kyoto Studio Park (also known as Toei Uzumasa Eigamura) theme park in Kyoto, as part of a company trip. In addition to filming locations for production company Toei’s period samurai movies and TV shows, one of the attractions the coworkers checked out was a haunted house.
One member of the group, a karate yudansha (a karate…
