'Running Boy' was born in 1973, when road fatalities in Japan had soared to an all-time high.
He's a familiar face on Japanese residential roads — a cherubic yet intense cartoon boy, with helmet hair and enormous beady black eyes, body tensed and ready to dart out into traffic. Known as tobidashi-boya, literally"run-out boy," the whimsical, cartoony signs have become the go-to line of defense for towns and PTAs looking to protect pint-sized pedestrians on residential streets.
School children walk past a tobidashi-boya, literally"run-out boy," or Running Boy sign in Japan, warning drivers to proceed with caution.Running Boy tribute versions soon followed, in plastic, made by hand, and in Running Girl versions, on streets across the country. But few localities can match the density of signs lining rights-of-way around the thoroughfares of Higashi-Omi.
Over the decades, with the near-universal use of seat belts, airbags and sturdier vehicles, not to mention the installation of sidewalks, intersections and traffic lights, Japan's once-treacherous thoroughfares have become among the safest in the advanced world, measured by passenger deaths. In the 2019"Field Survey of the Current Conditions of 'Tobidashi-Boya' as a Traffic Safety Culture in
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