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 ...
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 ...
Road rage coverage reveals gulf in awareness of traffic rules in Japan
For the past several weeks, media organizations in Japan have been obsessed with a road rage incident that happened in Ibaraki Prefecture on Aug. 10, when a 43-year-old man forcibly stopped another driver on the Joban Expressway and assaulted him as he sat in ...
LDP to begin discussing stricter penalties for road rage cases
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party will start discussing measures to fight road rage, with an eye toward imposing stricter penalties on reckless drivers, sources have said. To crack down on such dangerous driving, the LDP is considering revising the road traffic law and the Penal ...
Mother of 2017 Kanagawa road-rage victim calls for harsher penalties after latest case
The mother of a man killed two years ago in a road-rage incident in Kanagawa Prefecture is calling for harsher penalties against offenders in the wake of a recent high-profile case. "A tragic accident may be forgotten and a similar thing occurs again. I believe ...
A 43-year-old man was referred to prosecutors Tuesday for allegedly punching a man after forcing him to pull over on an expressway in Ibaraki Prefecture in a road-rage incident that has captured national attention. Fumio Miyazaki, a company executive from Osaka, has admitted to the ...
Rare Japan road-rage manhunt prompts national debate over dangerous driving
The National Public Safety Commission says it “tightened” its approach toward dangerous driving in January 2018.
Suspect in Ibaraki expressway road-rage case is arrested in Osaka
Police on Sunday arrested a 43-year-old man who was on a nationwide wanted list on charges of causing bodily injury to a driver in a road-rage case that occurred at around 6:15 a.m. on Aug. 10 on an expressway in Ibaraki Prefecture. Fumio Miyazaki was ...
Ibaraki Prefectural Police put a 43-year-old man on a nationwide wanted list after he allegedly assaulted another driver in a high-profile case of road rage.
