Japanese actor Hirosue summarily indicted for negligent driving injury

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Prosecutors on Monday sought summary proceedings against Japanese actor Ryoko Hirosue over an injury caused by negligent driving after she rear-ended a trailer on an expressway in April, leaving a male passenger in her vehicle with a fracture.

But Hirosue, 45, who rose to fame in the 1990s and starred in films including the Oscar-winning "Departures," was not pursued by prosecutors over allegations that she assaulted a nurse at the hospital where she was taken in central Japan.