SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS : All the evidence against the accused Kabuo Miyamoto

The trial started one day before the anniversaire of the bombing of Pearl Harbour, on the 6th of december 1954. It all happened on San Piedro island, Kabuo Miyamotos place of residence.
He's a Japanese-American fisherman on trial for the murderer of another fisherman, a white man, named Carl Heine. All the people there assume that Carl was the victime of a murder.
A trial followed in which the community an the court want to discover the true causes of the victims death. Kabuo, the father of three children, is in the dock. Of particular increst in the trial is a batterey that was found on the boat of the death - what wouldn't be extraordinary; but they found out that it's definitely not that type of battery Carl uses normally, it's of course the type of battery Kabuo uses on his boat! Which naturally lead to a motive for Kabuo. By examining the corpse it became sure that Carl died from drowning but they found no appearances for an agony. They also noticed a strange wound on Carls head, which looked quite similar to wounds they noticed during the war against Japanese soldiers which used kendo - an art of stick fighting, and Kabuo was known as one of the best kendo fighters on the whole island.
But also others had motives to be the murderer. For example his wife or the racist mother of Carl. Many years ago, Kabuos parents leased acre from the Heines but because of the war they weren't able to pay the last two rates and so the Heines reclaimed their acre. There was still a conflict between them - but one day before the victims death, Kabuo said that Carl has already agreed with selling the acre to him (Kabuo). But afterwards, by searching the boat of Kabuo the sheriff discovers a blood-covered gaff - Kabuo got arrested directely!
The relatively rare type of blood matched with Carl Heines. Kabuos type is 0 negative and so they suspectet that the gaff could be the weapon that caused Carls headwound.
Now Kabuo was definitely decried as a murderer. But there was the reporter Ishmael Chambers, the school day friend of Kabuos wife Hatsue. He found out that it wasn't a murder and although Hatsue said she hates him, he helped them, told the court the true story and that Kabuo didn't told the truth from the beginning on out of fear of being judged unfairly because he's Japanese. All the evidence against Kabuo were a contretemps, it wasn't a murder.
It was a accident. Carl Heine had tied a latern to his mast because there was no electricitiy; but then a wave came and he fall off the mast.
So Kabuo, by contrast, was the villain but also the victim of the story. In the end the new facts changed the original evidence, the truth came out and Kabuo was acquitted of the murder.