and other supporters outside the Supreme Court in Tokyo.

The top court ordered the Takamatsu High Court in Kagawa Prefecture, which had handed down the second rejection, to hold the retrial, saying the dangers of taking to the pitch on a day when a thunderstorm advisory was in effect were foreseeable.

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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
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