A Japanese court has fined a 66-year-old man for posting hating speech targeted at a teenage resident from Korea - the first such ruling in the country.<br />The Kawasaki court also ordered Yuji Takeshita to remove the defamatory remarks from his blog titled “Virulent Alien Parasites Named Zainichi."<br />Zainichi is often used to describe Korean residents in Japan, who are a frequent target of racial abuse by Japanese people.<br />Takeshita claimed he had no intent to insult the boy and treated the blog as a diary.<br />The 16-year-old's lawyers called on the government to implement stricter regulations to curb online hate speech and protect potential victims. <br />
