Matsukawa derailment
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The Matsukawa derailment (松川事件 Matsukawa jiken?) happened on August 17, 1949 when a passenger train derailed and overturned between Kanawagawa and Matsukawa stations on the Tohoku Line in Japan, killing three crew members. It was reported that the tracks had been sabotaged, which the government blamed on the Japanese Communist Party and the Japan National Railway Union. Twenty people were arrested and indicted but all were found innocent.
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