<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsukawa_derailment" id="mwAWk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Matsukawa derailment">Matsukawa derailment</a>: Unknown saboteurs cause a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tōhoku_Main_Line" id="mwAWo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tōhoku Main Line">passenger train</a> to derail and overturn in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Prefecture" id="mwAWs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Fukushima Prefecture">Fukushima Prefecture</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan" id="mwAWw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Japan">Japan</a>, killing three crew members and igniting a political firestorm between the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Communist_Party" id="mwAW0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Japanese Communist Party">Japanese Communist Party</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Japan" id="mwAW4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Occupation of Japan">government of Occupied Japan</a> that will eventually lead to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Purge" id="mwAW8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Red Purge">Japanese Red Purge</a>.<sup about="#mwt64" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"}}' id="cite_ref-10" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_17#cite_note-10" id="mwAXA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 10;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAXE">[10]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"><cite about="#mwt61" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFChalmers1972">Chalmers, Johnson (1972). <span class="id-lock-registration" id="mwB3E" title="Free registration required"><a class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/conspiracyatmats0000john" id="mwB3I" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB3M">Conspiracy at Matsukawa</i></a></span>. University of California Press. pp.<span id="mwB3Q" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>118–119. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB3U" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB3Y" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/0-520-02063-4" id="mwB3c" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/0-520-02063-4"><bdi id="mwB3g">0-520-02063-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt61" class="Z3988" id="mwB3k" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Conspiracy+at+Matsukawa&amp;rft.pages=118-119&amp;rft.pub=University+of+California+Press&amp;rft.date=1972&amp;rft.isbn=0-520-02063-4&amp;rft.aulast=Chalmers&amp;rft.aufirst=Johnson&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fconspiracyatmats0000john&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+17"></span></span>