Atsushi Ozawa, 50, told investigators that the road belongs to humans and that it was the pigeons "who should dodge," per NHK.

Atsushi Ozawa accused of using car to kill common pigeon, which vets said died of traumatic shock

In 2023 Tokyo, now contemplating its own dead pigeon show trial, the setting is infinitely more placid. But the underlying, tragicomic dissonance is similar: in war or peace, is the prosecution of a pigeon killer the sign of a nation that has lost its grip on reality,

Please tell me this is satire,’ one social media commentator writes. But Japanese authorities say driver violated wildlife protection laws