The European Commission’s right to be forgotten ruling appears to be having a ripple effect around the world, most recently reaching Japan.

According to The Wall Street Journal(Opens in a new window), the Tokyo District Court this week issued an injunction requiring that Google remove search results that allegedly violate a local man’s privacy.

The search giant must delete 120 of 230 results that link to articles even hinting that the unnamed man was previously involved in criminal activity. Those associations, he said, put his life in danger.

“This is good news for those who feel their lives are threatened and are sickened physically and psychologically by Google’s search results,” the plaintiff’s lawyer, Tomohiro Kanda, told the Journal.

“It was groundbreaking that the court didn’t see the search engine in a special light as it had been before,” he added.

In Europe, the “right to be forgotten” case dates back to 1998, when a man attempted to have a newspaper article about his Social Security debts scrubbed from Google search results. In June 2013, Google won an appeal in the EU’s high court, which found that search engines are not required to remove such links, provided that publication of the data is legal. But that decision was overturned in May, requiring Google to accept requests for removal.

Google has pushed back on the ruling publicly, but complied with the ruling. It established an Advisory Council to assess the right-to-be-forgotten requests; members are now on a seven-city European tour intended to educate people about the issue and answer questions from the public. The council will be in Berlin and London next week, before ending in Brussels on Nov. 4.

“We have a standard process for removal requests,” a Google spokesman said in a statement emailed to PCMag. “We remove pages from our search results when required by local law—including Japan’s longstanding privacy and defamation laws. We’re currently reviewing this preliminary injunction from the Tokyo District Court.”

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Editor’s Note: This story was updated at 11:45 a.m. Eastern with comment from Google.