road rage

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.

Revocations would be allowed for reckless driving to address public fears sparked by several road-rage cases over the past few years.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The National Public Safety Commission says it “tightened” its approach toward dangerous driving in January 2018.

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 ...