Before we’re old enough to even see over the dashboard, we learn that green means go and red means stop. This internationally ...

A Japanese road sign on which romaji has been replaced by an English translation (Wikimedia / Monaneko) Japan has historically gone against convention when it comes to signage. It’s not among ...

These signs are reminders for local ... Tobita-kun might not have solved all of Japan's traffic problems, but it did provide a rallying point around which Japanese citizens could focus their ...

It makes perfect sense if you understand Japanese, but those were the labels, until recently, on some of Tokyo's English road signs. Coming a bit late to the realization that foreign visitors may ...

Higashi-Omi, Japan — He's a familiar face on Japanese residential ... and Tourism report on residential road safety did not even mention Running Boy signs. In the 2019 "Field Survey of the ...

Traffic lights in Japan aren’t always straightforward. From green arrows to flashing reds, here’s how to understand what each signal means.

Japanese traffic lights are blue instead of the green Americans know, but the reasoning involves some complex linguistic ...