{"id":50958,"date":"2022-12-07T13:50:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T04:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/07\/hana-kimura-death-mother-of-reality-star-sues-producers-of-terrace-house-tv-show"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:50:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T04:50:01","slug":"hana-kimura-death-mother-of-reality-star-sues-producers-of-terrace-house-tv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50958","title":{"rendered":"Hana Kimura death: Mother of reality star sues producers of Terrace House TV show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyoko Kimura claims the reality TV programme triggered cyber bullying that led to her daughter\u2019s death<\/p>\n<p>The mother of Hana Kimura, a former professional wrestler who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/24\/hana-kimura-grief-as-japanese-wrestler-and-reality-show-member-dies-aged-22\">killed herself<\/a> after appearing in the Japanese reality TV show Terrace House, has sued the programme\u2019s producers, claiming the show triggered the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/cyberbullying\">cyberbullying<\/a> that led to her death.<\/p>\n<p>Kimura, 22, killed herself in May 2020 after being subjected to abuse and harassment on social media following her appearances on the popular show, which featured a disparate group of strangers living together.<\/p>\n<p><em>International helplines can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.befrienders.org\/\">befrienders.org<\/a>. In the UK and Ireland, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samaritans.org\/\">Samaritans<\/a> can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email <a href=\"mailto:jo@samaritans.org\">jo@samaritans.org<\/a> or <a href=\"mailto:jo@samaritans.ie\">jo@samaritans.ie<\/a>. In the US, the <a href=\"https:\/\/suicidepreventionlifeline.org\/\">National Suicide Prevention Lifeline<\/a> is at 800-273-8255 or chat for support. You can also text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis text line counselor. In Australia, the crisis support service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeline.org.au\/\">Lifeline<\/a> is 13 11 14.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/07\/hana-kimura-death-mother-of-reality-star-sues-producers-of-terrace-house-tv-show\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyoko Kimura claims the reality TV programme triggered cyber bullying that led to her daughter\u2019s deathThe mother of Hana Kimura, a former professional wrestler who killed herself after appearing in the Japanese reality TV show Terrace House, has sued t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,519,518,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-television-radio","category-tv-streaming","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50959,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50958\/revisions\/50959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}