THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
September 2, 2021 at 17:50 JST
Kozo Iizuka, the accused in the fatal car accident, arrives at the Tokyo District Court by taxi on Sept. 2. (Hiroyuki Yamamoto)
A 90-year-old former government bureaucrat was found guilty on Sept. 2 of killing two people and injuring nine others in a 2019 traffic accident in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district and sentenced to five years in prison. [Read More]
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