Nine years ago, in the trial of the guerilla incident in which a shell exploded near the Yokota base of the U.S. military in Tokyo, the Tokyo High Court in the second trial acquitted a member of the extremist "Kakuryokyo anti-mainstream faction" following the first trial. rice field.
In 2013, Toyotsuna Numata (71), a member of the Kakuryōkyo anti-mainstream group, installed a timed launcher at the Yokota Air Base of the U.S. Army, fired artillery shells and detonated them. He was accused of violating explosives control penalties for firing cannonballs at a building in the city.
In response to the 30-year imprisonment request, the Tokyo District Court in the first instance acquitted him, and the prosecution appealed.
In the judgment of the second trial on the 9th, presiding judge Fumio Oyoshi of the Tokyo High Court said, "Many fingerprints of the defendant have been detected in the room of the apartment where the launch device is said to have been manufactured, but the defendant stayed in that room for a period of time. I lived there, so it wasn't unnatural, and just because I had fingerprints, it can't be recognized that I was involved in the development.There is no evidence that I installed the device."
In response to the ruling, Hiroshi Yamamoto, deputy chief public prosecutor of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office, commented, ``It is regrettable that the allegations were not accepted.