Overview
- Defense counsel filed a Supreme Court appeal on February 9 seeking the father's full acquittal.
- Sapporo prosecutors lodged their own appeal on February 10 contesting the High Court's narrowed conviction.
- The January 27 Sapporo High Court decision overturned parts of the first-instance ruling and rejected assistance to corpse abandonment.
- Judges held the father recognized that filming the act would gratify his daughter, constituting assistance to mutilation.
- The case now awaits Supreme Court review on disputed facts and legal standards for assistance offenses, with no ruling yet.