
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.
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.
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.
Prosecutors get first road rage case under Japan’s revised law
The suspect allegedly committed the act on the day that the revised law came into effect, making such incidents punishable.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Coming up with new legal definitions is an important step in clamping down on road rage.
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.
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.
Uncontrollable rage is largely a sober phenomenon
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 ...
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 ...