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

A Japanese road sign on which romaji has been replaced by an English translation (Wikimedia / Monaneko) Japan has historically gone against convention when it comes to signage.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 ...

Japan`s Construction Ministry has announced plans for a five-year program to replace road signs in Japanese only with road signs in English and Japanese. Visitors to Tokyo will be the first to ...

"Running Boy" was born in 1973, when road fatalities in Japan had soared to an all-time high. The social welfare office of Higashi-Omi, a city of about 100,000 outside Kyoto, asked a local sign ...

These signs are reminders for local drivers to slow down, and according to Atlas Obscura, they helped in Japan's so-called Traffic War. The Traffic Wars is a name given to the period of the 1950s ...

HIKONE, Shiga -- Fifty years have passed since boy-shaped signs began their traffic safety vigil over roadsides in west Japan, and the tourist association in its birthplace has opened a special ...