Living in a boring residential area and I swear dodging the bicycles everywhere on all the tiny pedestrian sidewalks should’ve been an Olympic sport at Tokyo 2020. There’s so many old people I can’t help but wonder— is old people getting hit by bikes a big problem in Japan? I can’t help but think the combination of a huge ageing population with poor reaction times who tend to just amble everywhere + people speeding down walking ways on bikes (all ages from kids to other oji-sans, I’ve noticed) is like… a recipe for disaster. Is this an actual issue and I just don’t look at the news enough or do the Japanese oji-san population just all have a bike-dodging cultural superpower??
by eichikiss