Why Does Japan Drive on the Left?

[DiEdward]

In feudal Japan during the shogunate era, samurai typically carried their swords on the left side of their bodies and fought with their right hands, which led to the habit of walking on the left side of the road. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan adopted traffic regulations from Britain, thus also driving on the left. This rule was formally established by law in 1924. Here is additional information: British driving rules: The British had a custom of keeping to the left, but there were no strict regulations before the victory of the British bourgeois revolution. After the victory and before the first industrial revolution, due to the prosperity of commerce, a preliminary transportation network had formed in Britain. The upper class often traveled by carriage, and if they drove on the left, the coachman's whip could easily injure pedestrians.