After 29 Years of Service, a Japanese Bus Driver Loses €73,000 Pension Over One Single…

After 29 Years of Service, a Japanese Bus Driver Loses €73,000 Pension Over One Single…

The cameras mounted above the windshield of city buses in Kyoto don’t usually play a central role in the lives of their drivers. For one 58-year-old employee of the Kyoto City Transportation Bureau, however, a routine surveillance recording would alter the course of nearly three decades of public service. In February 2022, during an otherwise uneventful shift, the driver was filmed diverting a passenger’s 1,000 yen bill — about $7 — from the far…