An 89-year-old former top bureaucrat pleaded not guilty Thursday over a 2019 car accident in which a woman and her young daughter were killed, stirring debate about the increasing number of elderly drivers on Japanese roads and the dangers they pose."I remember I did not keep pressing on the accelerator. The car had some issues and was out of control," said Kozo Iizuka, a former chief of the now-defunct Agency of Industrial Science and Technology under the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, in the first hearing of his trial at the Tokyo District Court.Iizuka's negligence charge c…READ FULL ARTICLE
