Tokyo Police Send Papers on Head of Go-kart Rental Company, After 2 Foreigners Arrested for Property Damage

Police have sent papers to prosecutors on a man in his 40s for renting out go-karts in Tokyo to foreign tourists who did not have valid driving permits, it has been learned. Providing vehicles to unlicensed drivers is a violation of the Road Traffic Law.

The Metropolitan Police Department’s Azabu police station suspects that a rental company headed by the man in Ota Ward, Tokyo, has let about 50 unlicensed foreigners drive go-karts since the autumn of 2023.