Retrial for wartime speech crackdown case ends with no verdict

Retrial for wartime speech crackdown case ends with no verdict

TOKYO, Japan - Maki Kimura (front), wife of the late Toru Kumura, one of five men convicted for the ''Yokohama Incident,'' a case involving wartime repression of free speech, expresses disappointment at a press conference in Tokyo on March 14. The Supreme Court earlier in the day rejected an appeal against a lower court decision to terminate the retrial of the five men.

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