The National Police Agency is reviewing the “very easy” procedure of converting foreign driver’s licenses into Japanese ones following a huge surge in applicants and a pair of shocking traffic ...

Hidetoshi Uchida, head of Hinomaru Kotsu's training center, left, and driver Massimo Bellini, are seen in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on July 10, 2023. (Mainichi/Ai Yokota) TOKYO -- When Massimo Bellini, an ...

This 2019 file photo shows the Gunma Prefectural Police headquarters. (Mainichi/Hinako Kikuchi) MAEBASHI -- Authorities mistakenly failed 16 people and passed one in the driver's license test for ...