Two recent high-profile traffic accidents involving foreign nationals have prompted the National Police Agency to consider revising the rules on converting a foreign driver's license into a Japanese one.
The agency revealed the plan Wednesday during a Liberal Democratic Party committee meeting on foreign residents amid concerns that the system for converting a license is too easy. The same day, LDP policy chief Itsunori Onodera visited a driver’s license center in Tokyo to see how the process works.
"We'll urge the government to make amendments" if there is a problem in the system of converting foreign driver's licenses, Onodera told reporters.
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