Date of
Judgment:
22.03.1978
Issuing
Authority:
Supreme Court
Level of
the Issuing Authority: Final Instance
Type of
Procedure:
Judicial (Criminal)
Subject
Matter: Other
Summary
of the judgment (decision):
Concerning the act of placing a label
of a tokkyu [highest class] grade sake on a bottled sake which did not take the
examination available for each grade and receive the grading, and which was
given the grade of nikyu [second class] pursuant to the Liquor Tax Act , even
if the quality of the sake is substantially no less great than that of a tokkyu
grade sake, such act constitutes a crime of violation of Article 5, item (i) of
the Unfair Competition Prevention Act .
(This
translation is provisional and subject to revision.)