Suita Incident

On June 24, 1952, workers, Koreans and students gathered at Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, to celebrate the second anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. After the rally, from the following morning, they held an anti-war and anti-military transport demonstration (about 900 people) at Suita Marshalling Yard and Suita Station, clashing with police. During this demonstration, some of the group attacked police stations and security vehicles, and forced special trains to depart. The Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office indicted 107 people, and argued that the incident was a military action plan by the Japanese Communist Party and that the charges of rioting had been established. However, most of the statements, which are important in terms of proof, were rejected as not being voluntary, and the first trial in June 1963 found the charges of rioting not to be established. Then, in the second trial in July 1968, 46 people were found guilty of obstruction of business, but the charges of rioting were not established. In March 1972, the Supreme Court dismissed the appeals of the five defendants, bringing to an end this incident, which was said to be one of the three major postwar riots along with the May Day and Osu incidents. In addition, in the first instance, the so-called "Suita Silent Prayer Incident" occurred on July 29, 1953, on the occasion of the Korean War armistice, when the defendants applauded to celebrate the victory of the peace forces and observed a moment of silence in gratitude for the North Korean soldiers killed in battle, and the presiding judge tacitly approved this.

[Shoji Arakawa]

"Postwar Political Trial History Volume 2" edited by Tanaka Jiro et al. (1980, Daiichi Hoki Publishing)

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1952年（昭和27）6月24日、大阪府豊中(とよなか)市の朝鮮戦争勃発(ぼっぱつ)2周年記念前夜祭に集まった労働者、朝鮮人、学生が、集会後から翌朝にかけ吹田操車場、吹田駅まで反戦・軍事輸送反対のデモ（約900人）を行い、警官隊と衝突した事件。この間、集団の一部が派出所や警備車を襲撃、臨時電車を発車させるなどの行動をとった。大阪地検は107人を起訴、事件を日本共産党の軍事行動計画ととらえ騒乱罪成立を主張したが、立証上重要なウェイトを占める供述調書の大半を「任意性なし」として却下され、1963年6月の一審は騒乱罪不成立となった。ついで1968年7月の二審は、威力業務妨害罪で46人が有罪とされたが、騒乱罪は不成立。1972年3月、5被告の上告を最高裁が棄却してメーデー、大須と並び戦後三大騒乱事件の一つといわれたこの事件も終了した。なお、一審では、朝鮮戦争休戦に際して、1953年7月29日、被告たちが平和勢力の勝利を祝う拍手と北朝鮮軍戦死者に対する感謝の黙祷(もくとう)を行い、裁判長がこれを黙認したいわゆる「吹田黙祷事件」があった。

［荒川章二］

『田中二郎他編『戦後政治裁判史録　第2巻』（1980・第一法規出版）』

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