Why Japan has blue trade light though not immature ?
WEB DESK: Meaning behind traffics light colours is essential to know and substantially a really common thing for each citizen. Parents too told us when we were kids that red light means to ‘stop’ and immature means ‘go’. We learnt this by heart given then.
But, we might find it opposite in Japan. And, it is related to enlightenment and it is being followed for hundred of years when a Japanese denunciation has usually 4 names for simple colours. black, white, red, and blue. Japanese report immature simply with blue. The colour immature itself doesn’t exist in Japan. For instance, a fruit businessman would sale we immature phony apple observant ‘blue apples’. Also, they call blue “ao” in Japanese and immature “midori”. Since years, people of Japan are trade with these colours like this and it seems like they are not going to accept immature as green.
Earlier, trade light was done immature as it should be since general trade law encourages each nation to keep ‘go’ vigilance as green. But, a supervision of Japan had to compromise. But according to a author of Atlas Obscura, Allan Richarz,“In 1973, a supervision mandated by a cupboard sequence that trade lights use a bluest shade of immature possible—still technically green, though noticeably blue adequate to justifiably continue regulating the ao nomenclature.”
Source: Reader’s Digest
Article source: http://aaj.tv/2017/09/why-japan-has-blue-traffic-light-but-not-green/