Overview
- A car mounted the curb and crashed into the first-floor constituency office of LDP lawmaker Honda Taro in Maizuru, Kyoto, late on Saturday, causing visible damage to a shutter and broken glass.
- A nearby police officer who had been handling another matter approached the vehicle but the driver accelerated away, and Kyoto prefectural police are investigating the incident under road-traffic hit-and-run statutes.
- The office was unoccupied at the time and no one was injured, and Honda’s office posted on social media expressing relief that there were no human casualties.
- Police say the vehicle drove from National Route 27 onto the sidewalk before striking the building and that they are searching for the car and driver; witnesses and officers at the scene have provided the initial account to investigators.
- Reporters note a separate April 27 incident in which a streetlight near the same office was knocked down, but authorities have not confirmed any connection between that event and Saturday’s crash.