Court dismisses wartime suppression case, gives no verdict

Court dismisses wartime suppression case, gives no verdict

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Family members of Yasuhito Ono, a deceased journalist who was convicted in the ''Yokohama Incident,'' enter the Yokohama District Court in Yokohama on March 30 to hear the court ruling on Ono's retrial case. The court dismissed the retrial and passed no judgment on whether or not Yasuhito Ono was guilty of promoting communism in violation of a wartime law.

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