How a Japan doctor’s 40-year reunion ended in ruin and US$4 million lawsuit

It all began with a phone call out of the blue to a doctor running a cosmetic surgery clinic in Tokyo’s swanky Ginza district in the winter of 2014. “Do you remember me? I’d love to get together after all these years,” the man on the line told the doctor who had been his childhood friend in grade school. They had not seen or spoken to each other since they sang together in their local choir some 40 years earlier. Feeling a tug of nostalgia, the doctor agreed to meet. Ten years after their...