Overview
- Osaka Prefectural Police on Feb. 12 referred a 40-year-old company employee to prosecutors for failing to attend a court-ordered bicycle safety lecture.
- Investigators attached a strict disposition seeking indictment, the first known referral nationwide for nonattendance since the program began.
- The Osaka Public Safety Commission had ordered the course after repeat violations, with a deadline of Oct. 24 last year that the man missed.
- Police report more than 50 reminders as the man booked 14 sessions but did not appear, at times offering false excuses including a family death and work demands.
- The suspect has acknowledged the violation, telling officers he took the requirement lightly.