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Court finally acquits 5 in wartime ideology case

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Shinichi Ono (L) smiles at a press conference in Yokohama on Feb. 4, 2010, after the Yokohama District Court cleared the names of his father Yasuhito and four others in the so-called ''Yokohama Incident,'' often described as Japan's worst case of supression of free speech during World War II. On the right is Shinichi's sister, Nobuko Saito.

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Court dismisses wartime suppression case, gives no verdict

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Shinichi Ono (R), second son of Yasuhito Ono, a deceased journalist who was convicted in the ''Yokohama Incident,'' and Nobuko Saito, Yasuhito Ono's eldest daughter, speak at a news conference in Yokohama on March 30 after the Yokohama District Court dismissed the retrial of their father 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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Kin of convicted editor seek acquittal in Yokohama Incident

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Shinichi Ono (R) and his sister Nobuko Saito speak at a press conference at the Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama on Feb. 17. Ono and Saito called for the conviction of their deceased father Yasuhito Ono, a wartime magazine editor, to be quashed during a retrial hearing at the Yokohama District Court of the so-called Yokohama Incident, a case concerning the repression of free speech during World War II in which Yasuhito Ono was convicted.

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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.

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Court dismisses wartime suppression case, gives no verdict

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Shinichi Ono (R), second son of Yasuhito Ono, a deceased journalist who was convicted in the ''Yokohama Incident,'' and Nobuko Saito, Yasuhito Ono's eldest daughter, speak at a news conference in Yokohama on March 30 after the Yokohama District Court dismissed the retrial of their father and passed no judgment on whether or not Yasuhito Ono was guilty of promoting communism in violation of a wartime law. (Kyodo)

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Kin of convicted editor seek acquittal in Yokohama Incident

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Shinichi Ono (R) and his sister Nobuko Saito speak at a press conference at the Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama on Feb. 17. Ono and Saito called for the conviction of their deceased father Yasuhito Ono, a wartime magazine editor, to be quashed during a retrial hearing at the Yokohama District Court of the so-called Yokohama Incident, a case concerning the repression of free speech during World War II in which Yasuhito Ono was convicted. (Kyodo)

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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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Court finally acquits 5 in wartime ideology case

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Shinichi Ono (L) smiles at a press conference in Yokohama on Feb. 4, 2010, after the Yokohama District Court cleared the names of his father Yasuhito and four others in the so-called ''Yokohama Incident,'' often described as Japan's worst case of supression of free speech during World War II. On the right is Shinichi's sister, Nobuko Saito. (Kyodo)