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Man arrested for assaulting taxi driver, stealing cab

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Police have arrested a 56-year-old man on suspicion of assault and robbery after he beat up a taxi driver and stole his vehicle in Tokyo’s Adachi Ward.

According to police, the incident occurred at around 8:10 p.m. on Friday, Sankei Shimbun reported. The suspect, Tsuyoshi Yano, got into the taxi and when he arrived at his destination in Senjukawaracho, he hit the 43-year-old driver several times in the face and refused to pay the 1,690 yen fare.

When the driver got out of the taxi to call 110, Yano got into the driver’s seat and drove away. He stopped about three kilometers away where police arrested him.

Police said Yano was drunk at the time of his arrest.

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I think it was about 5 or 6 months ago, some foreign wrestler or something beat up a taxi driver and didn't pay his fare.... everybody was all over the guy. Ehhhh.... this guy's a domestic, so we'll go light on him and the press probably will too. I think JT only put this up on the site in order to be "fair and balanced".

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This scenario has repeated itself quite a few times in the last year or so. It also seams to be becoming much more regular. Perhaps it’s time for Tokyo taxis to upgrade to the rest of the world and install protective shields for drivers and make taxi cashless. Japan is not the same country it was 40 years ago.

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This scenario has repeated itself quite a few times in the last year or so. It also seams to be becoming much more regular. Perhaps it’s time for Tokyo taxis to upgrade to the rest of the world and install protective shields for drivers and make taxi cashless. Japan is not the same country it was 40 years ago.

No country is the same country it was 40 years ago.

Personally, I was reading these stories in the Japan Times when I came here in the late '90s. I don't see any particular increase in these instances.

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"I was drunk and I can't remember".

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