Mitaka incident

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The Mitaka incident (三鷹事件, Mitaka jiken^?) was an incident that took place on July 15, 1949 when a runaway train at Mitaka Station on the Chūō Line in Tokyo, Japan killed 6 people and injured 20.

Though the incident remains shrouded in mystery, it is commonly believed to have been committed as a plot by the National Railway Workers' Union, along with the Shimoyama and Matsukawa incidents. Ten people were indicted, and in a court ruling in 1955, one employee of Japanese National Railways, Keisuke Takeuchi, was sentenced to death; the other defendants were freed. Takeuchi died in jail in 1967 due to a brain tumour. Until his death, he continued to proclaim his innocence.

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