National / Crime & Legal Oct 26, 2020
Man arrested in Japan's first cycling road rage case under new law
Authorities collected dashcam footage from cars in the area that enabled them to serve the fresh warrant Monday.
National / Crime & Legal Oct 2, 2020
Man gets suspended term over road rage captured by dashboard cam
The Mito District Court in Ibaraki Prefecture sentenced Fumio Miyazaki, a 44-year-old company executive, to 2½ years in prison, suspended for four years.
National / Crime & Legal Jun 9, 2020
The Cabinet approved Tuesday an enforcement order of the recently revised traffic law to tighten regulations on dangerous bicycle riding amid the increasing popularity of cycling due to the spread of the new coronavirus and growing health awareness. The enforcement order will prohibit such actions ...
National Jun 2, 2020
Japan enacts law to impose tougher penalties for road rage incidents
Law-enforcement authorities will be able to immediately revoke drivers' licenses for a road rage offense.
National / Crime & Legal Mar 6, 2020
Japan government adopts bill to toughen crackdown on road rage
The government Friday adopted a bill to crack down on forms of road rage currently not covered by a law that punishes dangerous driving. According to the bill, approved at a Cabinet meeting, the action of stopping vehicles in front of others or suddenly approaching ...
National / Crime & Legal Feb 13, 2020
Police crackdown nets over 15,000 tailgating violations across Japan in 2019
Police ticketed a total of 15,065 drivers for tailgating last year, up 2,040 or 15.7 percent from the previous year, due to increased efforts to tackle dangerous driving practices, police data showed Thursday. All cases were violations of a clause in the road traffic law ...
Editorials Dec 14, 2019
Coming up with new legal definitions is an important step in clamping down on road rage.
National / Crime & Legal Dec 6, 2019
Tokyo High Court quashes fatal road rage ruling and jail term on technicality, sending case back
Driver Kazuho Ishibashi’s notorious rest stop case will be reheard because the district court illegally overturned an opposing view expressed at a pretrial hearing.
National / Crime & Legal Nov 8, 2019
Japanese police want authority to revoke driver's licenses over road rage, source says
Revocations would be allowed for reckless driving to address public fears sparked by several road-rage cases over the past few years.
National / Media | BIG IN JAPAN Oct 19, 2019
Uncontrollable rage is largely a sober phenomenon
by Michael Hoffman
How we hate each other. The pertinent Japanese word is kireru, suggestive of a sudden outburst of uncontrollable rage. The Asahi Shimbun last month described a kireyasui shakai (a society in which it's easy to lose your temper). Surveying 1,586 individuals at random, it found ...
National / Crime & Legal Sep 14, 2019
Man arrested over air gun shooting in apparent road rage incident
Police arrested a man Saturday for allegedly firing an air gun at a car while chasing it in yet another apparent road rage incident six days earlier in central Japan, investigators said. The man, who is in his 40s, is suspected of shooting at another ...
National / Crime & Legal Sep 8, 2019
Driver in Ibaraki Prefecture road-rage case handed new arrest warrant on charges of intimidation
Police in Ibaraki Prefecture on Sunday served a new arrest warrant on charges of intimidation on a man suspected in a violent road-rage case on an expressway in the prefecture last month. It is very rare for a suspect in a road rage-linked reckless driving ...