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Although the results are an improvement on previous years, a worrying number of drivers aren’t stopping at pedestrian crossings.
The fact that children are using the crossing doesn’t seem to register to all three of these drivers.
In Japan, the customer is God, and sometimes that means going above and beyond to please with distinctive styles of service.
Tokyo Metropolitan Police to collaborate with World of Final Fantasy to promote traffic safety.
Incredible photos show an extraordinary number of insects wreaked havoc on drivers, closing a bridge and causing accidents on the weekend.
In a case of “teens who don’t think things through” versus trucks, we’re guessing the trucks might win…
Push-buttons at a pedestrian crossing are a pretty standard safety feature at most intersections.
But how long does a push button need to be? And we’re not talking about the length of time waiting once you press the push button, but the length of the actual push button…
Scooters are a popular means of transportation in all Asian countries for their small size and fuel economy. In Japan not a day goes by where you don’t see a dozen or so small engine bikes puttering around the streets.
However this video taken from Taiwan is on a whole other level. What must be thousands of scooters pouring off the Taipei Bridge are simply making their daily commute. The roughly two-minute video is eerily reminiscent of the million-duck march in Thailand last month, and yet it’s also strangely relaxing to watch.
Police in Kobe arrested a 71-year-old man on suspicion of driving without a valid licence on Monday this week after a local police officer recognised the vehicle’s number plate following a prior incident. When questioned about the offence, however, it transpired that the wily old truck driver had not simply forgotten to renew his documents, but had never held a licence in the 50 years he’d been behind the wheel.
We recently talked about some changes the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism was making to street signs ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, but it seems they are not content with superficial changes. They have apparently started looking into the plausibility of introducing signal-less roundabouts to Japan, something that could have drivers feeling very grumpy.
On 28 August police and motorists in Shiojiri and Matsumoto cities in Nagano Prefecture had to deal with nearly a half an hour of dead traffic lights. The cause of this menace was none other than mankind’s greatest airborne threat – bird droppings.
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