Society
A Kawaguchi Fatal-Crash Trial and a Defendant's Discrimination Claim
At the trial over a traffic collision in Kawaguchi that killed a 19-year-old, a Kurdish defendant reportedly said he missed a red light because he was thinking about discrimination against Kurds, and prosecutors reportedly rejected the account. Online reaction was overwhelmingly angry, reading the statement as an attempt to shift blame. Court records for the case are not public, and how the collision is ultimately judged is for the trial to decide.