Court approves retrial on wartime repression of writers

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Maki Kimura, the widow of Toru Kimura, one of the five defendants in the ''Yokohama Incident,'' sobs with joy in Yokohama on April 15 after the Yokohama District Court accepted a third petition for retrial of the case after rejecting two previous petitions. The case involved repression of journalists and other people during World War II. (Kyodo)

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