Court to retry 'Yokohama Incident'

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Nobuko Saito (L) and Shinichi Ono, daughter and son of Yasuhito Ono, a late journalist who was convicted in the so-called ''Yokohama Incident, meet the press in Yokohama on Oct. 31 after the Yokohama District Court decided to retry a case in the incident known as the nation's worst case of repression of free speech during the war, accepting the petition filed by them. (Kyodo)

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