Are you talking about the TS-mark? You get it when your bike is registered and inspected. If your bike is registered and inspected the inspection fee covers the TS-Mark, you don't need anything else.
I don't know who sold you that crap but it sounds like you got scammed.
There are very few bike lanes in Japan, big reason is the edit I made a minute ago.
Actually, yea, kinda.
One of the things you're taught early on in driving school in Japan is to "close the gap" and pull to the side that you're turning into in order to prevent bicycles and mopeds from fitting between the sidewalk and your car and tboning you if you pull into a right or left turn.
If you pull into a left turn (left handed driving so similar to a US right turn) without checking that a cyclist is coming up behind you on your left side and they slam into your car you are 100% at fault.
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The thing you gotta know about japanese roads and the law is that all roads unless explicitly marked otherwise are primarily for pedestrians and cyclists. As a car driver you are borrowing their roads. The law explicitly states that you are not allowed, while operating a motor vehicle, under any circumstances to impede the progress of pedestrians or cyclists.
The only time the law says otherwise is on highways and roads marked exclusively for motor vehicles.
Old lady walks in the middle of a four-lane street, shutting down traffic? Yea man too bad, you gotta wait, the most the police will do is set up a road barrier to help her cross easier and ask her nicely to use the pedestrian crosswalk.
No, that's covered by the "TS Mark" that you get when you buy and register the bike.
The general traffic rule is that unless indicated otherwise, roads are primarily for pedestrians and cyclists, so you're the one borrowing their roads, not the other way around.
No, they're not.
Not sure where you heard this, at most you need to register your bike with the police so they know who to fine if you leave it overnight somewhere it's not supposed to be
In Japan the fault for accidents is always assumed to be the larger vehicle. If a truck hits a car it's on the onus of the truck driver to prove he wasn't doing anything wrong, and if a car hits a cyclist, the car driver has to prove their innocence etc.
I think to most Americans that seems appalling (what if the stupid cyclist was doing something reckless?! Etc.), but it definitely makes people in Japan drive much safer in areas where there are potential cyclists, and thus makes it safer to cycle places easily.
Prove you're literate by solving lateral thinking word puzzles.
Payment processors are monopolies for online and electronic payments because there is no global infrastructure (outside Chinese offerings) for electronic payments that don't rely on Visa and Mastercard.
Something can be Libre without it's initial distribution being free (as in beer).
That's how many distributions used to do it in the days when CDs and floppies etc weren't exactly free.
I was definitely in the same camp of thinking (I mean Hindenburg etc, duh). But there's been a bunch of studies where, because hydrogen basically immediately dissappates up and away, unless you're in an extremely cramped area it's much safer in collisions and unexpected containment breaches.
Even then, it actually poses less of a threat to life because it doesn't create smoke or burn for awhile like gasoline does.
You mean to cover the inspection fee? The inspection sticker doesn't have an annual fee.
You don't need anything else other than the inspection sticker.