Suit over secret Okinawa pact argument rejected

TOKYO, Japan - Takichi Nishiyama, 75, expresses his anger at a press conference after the Tokyo District Court rejected his damages suit on March 27. The former Mainichi Shimbun reporter argued his career was ruined by an illegal indictment over his report about a secret agreement between Japan and the United States over the 1972 reversion of Okinawa to Japan.

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