Trade minister Seko's secretary arrested for beating taxi driver

He could have caused extreme tooth/bone damaged and killed the driver. Punching someone in the head could cause death.

Oh man, again?

So many angry drunks in japan.

Did he spend 2 weeks in custody like the Aussie did a couple of weeks ago?

Must suck being a taxi driver

SaikoPhysco

I thought the same thing, but of course, thus guy bowed, apologised and all was well.

Please run the followup story to let us know if he was ever even charged.

Law is the Law depending on what tier of society you are on, that version of the Law being applied. Drunk, violent and employed in a Government job, not far off getting a well paid private sector job...think a bow some cash all forgotten. Just an amusing story for him.

Please run the follow up story to let us know if he was ever even charged.

Sadly there almost never is any follow up on this kind of stuff & lots of other articles as well, we just get the initial bit then onto the next!

Great, nice to know our taxes are going towards paying the salaries of these arrogant, tantrum-throwing inebriated fools.

Abe and Miahara are accused of corruption but they are still around. This guy will keep quiet for a year or two.

only had one bad taxi driver who I wanted to slap, but got out. But when driving in Kansai cities, I can understand the term “road rage”. I think there is more to this story.

seems like all the talking heads have this case adjudicated already. why even bother reading this type of news story then?

Please run the followup story to let us know if he was ever even charged.

Odds are going to be pretty slim that he gets officially charged. There will be some serious cash passing hands, and the "only" way he will be charged is if the driver keeps up the pressure and officially files a complaint.

No complaint filed, no charges.

alcoholism is a serious issue and probably not spoken of very much in Japan even in the year 2018