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A fact from 730 (transport) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 December 2008, and was viewed approximately 1,640 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that from 1945 until 1978, cars in Okinawa Prefecture drove on the right side of the road until a switch to left-hand drive as part of the 730 Conversion Plan, to match the rest of Japan?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/December.

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Vienna Convention on Road Traffic

From the "Overview" section:

However, in accordance with the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic that restricts one country to have only one traffic direction, all the traffic in the prefecture was changed back to driving on the left on July 30, 1978.

But according to the map in the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic article, neither the US nor Japan has even signed that Convention, let alone ratified it. So is its mention really relevant here? Loganberry (Talk) 02:15, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Okinawa switched to left-hand traffic in 1978 in order to follow the rest of Japan which has left-hand traffic. However, Okinawa might have kept left-hand traffic during the American occupation, just as the rest of Japan kept LHT during American occupation 1945 to 1952, but now the Americans preferred to use right-hand traffic in Okinawa during their occupation, just as in the Philippines. 90.231.234.93 (talk) 22:54, 22 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Philippines

I wonder why the Philippines (with left-hand traffic before the Battle of Manila) didn't keep or (after the end of American occupation) switch to left-hand traffic, unlike Okinawa which switched back to LHT in late-July 1978 (after being RHT since the American occupation after the World War II end). It would be cheaper for the Philippines to use left-hand traffic and make or import cars with the driver's seat to the right (which are made mainly in Japan or Australia), rather than cars with the driver's seat to the left; this was the reason that Samoa decided to switch to LHT in early-September 2009.

A reason that the Philippines started to drive on the right after the American victory over Japan was that cheap American cars became popular in the Philippines as well as in China (which already had right-hand traffic except in the International Concession of Shanghai and the Japanese-occupied Manchukuo). But does the Philippines import its cars mainly from China? 90.231.234.93 (talk) 22:45, 22 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]