Chapter 36 second quarter
Let’s start with the events that happened in the summer of Showa 24.But even if this point is written out in its original form, it is enough to write a novel.Furthermore, what I focus on is not to directly prove the innocence of the current defendant, so I only insert some events where relevant to my narration, and briefly describe them as follows.
Regarding the beginning of the incident, here is the article by Mr. Hirotsu.In fact, citing the court records will suffice, but the transcripts are long, messy and boring, so it is better to quote Mr. Hirotsu's well-organized article.
"The No. 412 bus departed from Fukushima Station on time at 3:9 a.m. on August 17th to the bend between Jinguchuan and Matsukawa (near the 261km and 259m north of Tokyo) At that time, the locomotive derailed and overturned, and the several wagons hanging behind also derailed. The locomotive drivers Ishida, Shozo and two others died tragically. According to the on-site investigation, the fishplate of the railway track was removed, and the spikes of the sleepers were also pulled out. When it fell, a 25-meter-long rail weighing 925 kilograms flew down to a place 13 meters away from the line, and it still fell straight on the ground without any damage, as if it had been moved by someone. A crowbar usually used to remove road spikes was found in a nearby rice field. The investigating authorities then took out a monkey wrench with a total length of no more than 24 centimeters, which they said was also found at the scene. According to the investigating authorities Well, the monkey wrench, like the crowbar, was also found in the rice fields. It is strange that the authorities have never found out who discovered the monkey wrench.
"Because this is the third appalling incident that has occurred on the state-run railway after the 'Xiashan Incident' and the 'Mitaka Incident', the people of the whole country feel uneasy and wonder whether there is any terrible conspiracy hidden behind these incidents. The second On the 18th, Chief Cabinet Secretary Masuda Kokoshichi made this uneasiness even worse in a statement to journalists. He said:
"'This case is a crime of a heinous nature unheard of. It has the same ideological undercurrent as the Mitaka Case and various other cases.'
"In hindsight, the accident just happened on the 17th, and even the investigators on the scene were still in a fog, and there was no clue about the murderer; unless there was some premonition, it was far away in Tokyo (261 kilometers away from the scene) It is impossible for the Yoshida Cabinet to know the truth of the accident on the second day (18th). However, the Chief Cabinet Secretary, who holds an important position in the cabinet, made such a statement. It is conceivable how rash and absurd this is But at that time, even the author believed the words of Chief Masuda Miyazaki, thinking that this was a 'ideological crime'. This is due to the news reports about obstructing the train and the government's 'downhill' since June and a half. Incident" and "Mitaka Incident" unknowingly laid the groundwork in our hearts, so that we blindly accepted the words of Chief Cabinet Secretary Masuda indiscriminately. I am afraid that there are not a few people who express their dissatisfaction with the rash things the Communist Party has done.
"Shortly after the incident, the investigative authorities began to eliminate the so-called juvenile hooligans near Fukushima and Matsukawa. However, the target of the investigation was the cadres and Communist Party members of the Fukushima labor union of the state-owned railway. According to various newspapers in Fukushima after the incident This can be seen in the reports that began to be published in two or three days. Soon, it was reported that the target of the investigation was expanded to the cadres of the labor union of Toshiba Corporation's Matsukawa factory.
"However, twenty-four days later, on September 10, the first person to be arrested was neither a trade unionist nor a member of the Communist Party, but a 19-year-old road maintenance worker, Akama, who was dismissed in accordance with the 'Number of Staff Law'. Katsumi. In the first year, he fought with his friends, and the authorities arrested him on suspicion of injury, but that was only in name, and then he was interrogated for the 'Matsukawa Incident'.
"A week or so later, another eighteen-year-old boy, Takeshi Kikuchi, was arrested from Toshiba on suspicion of theft. It is worth noting that he is neither a member of a labor union nor a member of the Communist Party. The so-called suspicion of theft refers only to his Such a trivial matter as stealing a ration of cigarettes in a factory, and immediately found out that the matter was fabricated. But the authorities did not release him, and began to interrogate him about the 'Matsukawa incident'. Later, because he accidentally suffered from appendicitis, was released.
"When you consider the whole incident, you can see that the authorities have a conspiracy to first arrest those youths who are neither trade union officials nor Communist Party members, and then open a net of arrests to trade union officials and Communist Party members. The reader will soon understand. This situation.
"Ten days later, the investigating authorities recorded the young Chima's confession. Whether this confession was made by him on his own initiative or under the inducement of the investigating authorities remains to be studied; but according to Chima's Confessions, the suspects were arrested in turn.
"September 10, Akama Katsumi (Member of the Fukushima Branch of the Fukushima Branch of the National Railway Workers Union). (Crime: Injury.)
"September 18 Takeshi Kikuchi (Matsukawa factory trade union member at Toshiba). (Convicted of theft. Released shortly after suffering from appendicitis.)
"September 21 Akama confessed that he caused the train overturn accident. The charge was changed to cause the train overturn, and other people were arrested based on the same confession. (Indicted on October 13.)
"September 22, Tian Sheng (member of the Fukushima Branch of the State-owned Railway Trade Union, member of the Communist Party), Toyo Ninomiya (same as above, member of the Communist Party), and Nobuki Kanaki (same as above, chairman of the Fukushima Branch, member of the Communist Party), Abe City Ji (same as above, secretary of the Fukushima branch and member of the Communist Party), Haruo Takahashi (same as above, member of the Fukushima branch and member of the Communist Party), Nio Hamasaki (member of the labor union at Toshiba Corporation’s Matsukawa Factory), Kazuo Sato (organizing cadre of the Toshiba Federation of Trade Unions) , Communist Party members). (The above were all sued on October 13.)
"October 4th Sugiura Sanyo (Chairman of the Toshiba Matsukawa Factory Labor Union, Communist Party Member), Ota Shoji (Toshiba Matsukawa Factory Labor Union Vice-Chairman, Communist Party Member), Sato Daiji (Toshiba Matsukawa Factory Labor Union Member, Communist Party Member), Ouchi Shozo (a member of the labor union of the Toshiba Matsukawa factory), Kobayashi Genzoro (same as above). (The above all sued on October 26.)
"Takeshi Kikuchi was arrested again on October 8. (Sued on October 26.)
"October 17 Takeo Nikaido (Matsukawa factory trade union member), Nikaido Sonoko (same as above). (The above were all sued on November 7.)
"October 21 Hisashi Takeda (Chairman of the Fukushima Branch of the National Railway Trade Union, member of the Communist Party), Chito Saito (member of the Fukushima Branch of the National Railway Trade Union, member of the Communist Party), Juyo Matsu Okada (same as above, also a member of the Fukushima Regional Trade Union) Secretary-General of the meeting, member of the Communist Party), Yoshihiro Honda (reporter of the "Chiqi Daily", released later), Kenzo Kato (member of the Fukushima Branch of the Fukushima Branch of the National Railway Workers Union, member of the Communist Party). (November 12, Taizhai Fuji, Takeda, and Kato sued. On December 1, sued Okada.)
"The content of the prosecution's explanation can be summarized as follows: Some of these suspects met at the Fukushima Branch Office of the National Railway Workers Union on August 13 and 15 to plan a conspiracy to overturn the train; Some people also made several plans. As a result, Honda, Takahashi, and Akama were dispatched by the state-run railway union branch, and Sato Kazuo and Hamasaki were dispatched by Toshiba to destroy the rails. The crowbars used to destroy the rails and The wrench was stolen from the warehouse of the road maintenance team at Matsukawa Station by Kobayashi, Kikuchi, and Ouchi from Toshiba.
"The above is the general process of the 'Matsukawa incident'. The defendants and many defenders agreed that the above-mentioned crimes were fabricated by the investigating authorities and continued to protest, but the first trial at the Fukushima District Court and the second trial at the Sendai High Court In the second instance, the judges refused to accept the case and made judgments respectively.
"In the first trial, all the defendants were convicted, in the second trial, three were not guilty, and 17 were guilty, and the 17 defendants immediately appealed to the Supreme Court." (See "Matsukawa Trial" by Mr. Hirotsu)
As we all know, the Supreme Court made a seven-to-five verdict on the defendant's appeal on August 10 (seven advocated for retrial and five for dismissal of the appeal). As a result, the case was sent back to the Sendai High Court for retrial.In this hearing, Chief Judge Tanaka Supreme Court, who advocated dismissing the appeal, issued a minority dissenting opinion.He said:
"The majority opinion is limited to judicial technology, and has not seen the whole picture and the truth of the incident. Moreover, the judicial technology itself has made major mistakes in evaluating evidence and citing Article 41 of the Criminal Procedure Law. Therefore, in any case, it cannot Convince myself."
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