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Article: Japanese company pays balding man out-of-court settlement for lack of hair growth
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- February 7, 2008
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Japan's leading hair-growth company has agreed to pay 4.3 million yen (US$40,355; 27,600) to a balding man whose hair did not grow back after four years of treatment.
The man, whose name was withheld for privacy reasons, started weekly treatments in 2001, but obtained limited results and sued the company in January 2006 seeking 8.6 million yen (US$80,710; 55,200) in damages, his lawyer, Yasumasa Tamura, said Thursday.
The 58-year-old businessman said he signed a contract for treatments with Mohatsu Clinic Reve 21 after the company assured him that his hair "will definitely grow back" in three years, the lawyer said.
He went through weekly sessions which cost ...