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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)
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)