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Yokohama Incident to return to court

Maki Kimura, wife of a former defendant in the Yokohama Incident

The Tokyo High Court said March 10 that it supports the 2003 decision by the Yokohama District Court to retry the case of five deceased journalists convicted in connection with the wartime Yokohama Incident crackdown on free speech, arguing that their confessions were most likely false and extracted under police torture.

The Yokohama Incident involves a series of repressive actions taken by the special higher police in Yokohama during the war against more than 60 journalists for allegedly publishing pro-communist articles.

Those arrested included editors at Chuo Koron magazine and the defunct Kaizo magazine as well as Asahi Shimbun reporters.

About 30 journalists were charged with violating the wartime Peace Preservation Law, aimed at clamping down on communists, and most received suspended prison terms shortly after the war ended.

The Yokohama Incident is considered the most serious wartime attack on free speech in Japan. Four of the defendants died in jail during the war and all of those convicted have since died.

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