Driving Difficulties

I'm often asked if it's been hard to adjust to driving on the left side of the road. The hardest part is getting over hitting the windshield whippers instead of the turn signal, having the steering wheel on the right side of the vehicle makes staying on the correct side of the road easy (knock on wood). Three of the hardest things about driving in Japan are illustrated below. First it gets dark really early, second motorcycles are always passing on the shoulder or between lanes of traffic, third people don't have a problem parking switching on the emergency flashers and parking any car on any street at any time.