How-tos | LIFELINES Apr 27, 2020
Compensation may be a matter for the 'Red Book'
by Seiji Yamaura
A reader would like to know what they are entitled to after being hit by a car while passing through an intersection.
National / Crime & Legal Mar 7, 2016
Police issued almost 8,000 penalties for reckless bicycling since new laws took effect in June
Police issued penalties in 7,924 cases of reckless bicycling nationwide in the seven months since new regulations took effect last June, a survey by the National Police Agency indicated Monday. A breakdown by prefecture found Osaka had the largest number of penalties issued, at 2,673, ...
Reference | FYI Jun 29, 2015
Law gets serious about cycling safety
by Masaaki Kameda
Bicycle use is growing along with greater public awareness of health and environmental issues, with cities around the country beginning to rent them out to visitors who are eager to tour Japan on the cheap. But this has triggered a rise in fatal accidents caused ...
Editorials Jun 16, 2015
The revised Road Traffic Law should serve as a reminder to cyclists that they must follow traffic rules and ride safely.
National Jan 20, 2015
Careless cyclists may have to undergo retraining if they cause accidents or even if they merely violate road rules, under a legal revision scheduled to take effect June 1. An apparent rise in collisions and other incidents resulting in injury or even death led the ...
National / Crime & Legal Dec 18, 2014
Man banned from bicycling for 90 days for using quasi-legal 'kiken' drugs
The Chiba Prefectural Public Safety Commission has banned a 29-year-old man from Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, from riding a bicycle for 90 days, after he was found guilty of cycling under the influence of quasi-legal "kiken" (dangerous) drugs. The ban took effect Tuesday. In September, the man ...
National Sep 27, 2013
Cyclists warned on new left side rule
by Mizuho Aoki
Many cyclists may be unaware that a ban on riding against the flow of traffic will take effect by the end of the year to curb an increasing number of bicycle-related accidents, police warned Friday. Under the revised Road Traffic Law, which will take effect ...
General Apr 13, 2013
Tokyo Brits gear up for three-day charity cycle ride to Fukushima
by Morichika Nakamoto
"Ten Brits, 10 Bikes, 300 km, 3 days . . . !" — a group of British expats living in Tokyo will saddle up for a charity cycle ride this month to the disaster-stricken city of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, in the sort of fundraising ...
National / Crime & Legal Feb 15, 2013
The National Police Agency unveiled a bill Thursday that would crack down on repeat reckless bicyclists, unlicensed motorists and people who fail to disclose diseases such as epilepsy that could impair their driving. The bill to revise the 1960 Road Traffic Law would oblige reckless ...