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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