free, easy, and News Animator Shiro Kudaka Sentenced to 4 Months in Prison for Driving Unlicensed posted on Judge: Animator demonstrated "little regard for observing the law" The Tachikawa Branch of the Tokyo District Court sentenced animator Shiro Kudaka to four months in prison for driving without a license, a violation of the Road Traffic Act, on Tuesday. Judge Hiroaki Kaize stated that the animator demonstrated "little regard for observing the law." (The prosecution was seeking a seven-month sentence.) Kudaka did not have a driver's license while driving a car in Kitanomachi, Hachioji City on June 20, 2020. He was on a suspended sentence for another case at that time.