The Tokyo District Court ordered the magazine publisher Bungeishunju to pay actress Nishida Hikaru ¥1.1 million compensation for libellous articles and advertisements. Nishida’s lawyers had sought ¥24 million, following an article which appeared in the Shukan Bunshun magazine in April 2003 suggesting that Nishida and the president of a cosmetics firm were having an affair. The magazine published photos of the two taken at the company’s shareholder meeting, and also ushed the story in its advertisements for the magazine. Married in 2002 and now living in the U.S., Nishida’s image has long been that of the typical “girl next door.”