Transport in Japan

Main article: Japan

2023

Fourth place in the world in terms of the number of cars sold - 4.8 million units

Countries with the largest car sales in 2023

Japan has a road with the function of wireless charging of electric vehicles at traffic lights

In mid-October 2023, in the city of Kashiwa in southeastern Japan (Chiba Prefecture), the operation of the first road with the function of wireless charging of electric vehicles began. It is assumed that this technology in the future will partially solve the problem of lack of charging stations, and will also help reduce the mass of battery packs in electrified vehicles. Read more here.

Work of Japan's largest port paralyzed due to ransomware virus attack

On July 5, 2023, the administration of Japan's largest cargo port, located in Nagoya, reported a hacker invasion. As a result of the ransomware virus attack, computer systems were paralyzed. Read more here.

2022: 1.4% of new cars are fully electric

2019

Unhappy Japanese rent a car for an overnight stay

In early July 2019, it became known that the Japanese are increasingly using car sharing and car rental services not for their direct purpose.

According to the newspaper Asahi Shimbun, the car-sharing operator Orix Auto (230 thousand users) found that many of its customers rent a car, but drive it. The company understood this by checking the mileage indicators before and after the vehicle armor. A rival Times24 service, which has more than 1.2 million registered users (by early July 2019), shared a similar observation.

Japanese carsharers find customers who rent cars but don't use them to move around

The services did not understand why then users rent cars, so they decided to conduct a survey. NTT Docomo surveyed 400 customers to find one in eight use vehicles not for travel

One of Times24 's customers talked about using a car-sharing car to sleep or as a workspace. Another ― kept personal belongings in a rented car. Another user took the car as he found no other place to eat lunch. A small percentage of customers used car sharing to talk on the phone while sitting in the cabin and at the same time charge it.

Usually, the only place I can take a nap between visits from my clients is a cyber cafe, but the cost of renting a car costs only a few hundred yen, almost the same as visiting a cyber cafe, "said one of the car-sharing users.

According to The Next Web, the Japanese work hard, so they need a short sleep during the day. From here you can understand the interest in car sharing in order to take a nap.

Car sharing in Japan is very popular. The average car rental price is 400 yen (about 235 rubles) for 30 minutes. You can usually take a car by the minute, for several hours or for the whole day.^[1]

591 cars per 1000 people

Cars per 1,000 people (World Bank, June 2019):

• UNITED STATES: 837
• Australia: 747
• Italy: 695
• Canada: 670
• Japan: 591
• Germany: 589
• Britain: 579
• France: 569
• Malaysia: 433
• Russia: 373
• Brazil: 350
• Mexico: 297
• Saudi Arabia: 209
• Turkey: 199
• Iran: 178
• SOUTH AFRICA: 174
• China: 173
• Indonesia: 87
• Nigeria: 64
• India: 22

Japan makes automatic braking system mandatory for new cars

In mid-February 2019, 40 countries, including Japan and Europe, states agreed to adopt a developed UN technical regulation on the use of automatic braking systems for cars. From 2020, such electronic assistants will begin to be equipped with more and more new passenger cars and small commercial vehicles. More. here

1920

Dawn of the Japanese auto industry, 1920.