Kozo Iizuka had already been sentenced to five years in prison, after the car he was driving crashed into Mana Matsunaga, 31, and her daughter Riko, 3.
A 92-year-old former top bureaucrat sentenced to five years in prison over a fatal Tokyo car accident in 2019 is ordered to pay around 140 million yen ($932,000) to bereaved family and other victims of the accident that sparked a debate on elderly drivers in rapidly graying Japan.
During the New Year holiday period, TV news reported a number of traffic accidents. One involved a driver who, while waiting for the traffic light to change, was rear-ended by a car traveling at a high rate of speed. Another mishap concerned a driver attempting to enter an expressway via…
A Japanese court has found a man guilty of defaming a person whose wife and daughter were killed in a high-profile 2019 car accident in Tokyo via social media posts. The Tokyo District Court on Friday sentenced Junichi Yuri to one year in prison, suspended for five years, and 29…