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To remind people of avoiding behaviors that threaten road safety, the city of Tianjin resorts to its characteristic humor by placing cartoon-style signs on its hustling roads. The creator of these ...

Higashi-Omi, Japan — He's a familiar face on Japanese residential roads — a cherubic yet intense cartoon ... traffic. Known as tobidashi-boya, literally "run-out boy," the whimsical, cartoony ...

With the country’s new default speed limit came a presumption that all roads in in built-up areas were 20mph, unless indicated otherwise, and so signs and road marking were no longer needed.