Can I really get sued for a review?

I was writing out a review for a vacuum machine we got on Amazon. Wasn’t that bad— 3 stars because it stopped working as well just a few months after purchase.
Husband stopped me saying I shouldn’t leave the review because if you review a Japanese product or restaurant poorly in Japan, the company can sue you for hurting their business.

Huh?? I feel like yeah maybe there’s been a couple crazy news stories, but how real is that ? Like if that was true there’d be no reviews anywhere right?
Curious if anyone had heard this before lol

by plushyslut