- On January 22, 1999, the Japanese criminal authorities revealed their revulsion of decency and human rights at the Osaka High Court. District prosecutors presented arguments against one Etsuko Yamada ( a former day care worker, aged 47) for murder, a crime which she has been tried and found innocent twice over the last twenty four years
The second appeal trial before the Osaka High Court closes hearings with five sessions taking only two months.
- The decisions are scheduled to be given on September 29, 1999 for Yamada, on October 22 for Araki and October 29 for Tada. The Osaka High Court is definitely expected to give the third acquittal decisions for all three of them.
Please attend the court for listening and check yourself this case.

- On September 12, 1999, a nationwide meeting to appeal for their innocence will be held at Kokumin-kaikan in Osaka by the Kabutoyama Case Support Group. Jakuchou Setouchi, a Buddhist nun and a famous novelist will make a keynote address at the meeting. For more information, please contact the following address.