Word: hamaguchi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only last week, 17 years and nine months after the rioting, that the Tokyo district court finally ended its trial of 261 people who were accused of taking part. It was the longest-running case in Japanese judicial history. When Judge Seirokuro Hamaguchi, 62, offered the opinion that the case had not violated the constitutional guarantee of "a speedy and public trial," several angry defendants shouted "Bakayaro!" (Idiot) from the dock...