Ryan Ginstrom wrote:

> Incidentally, I often see accidents driving around Okinawa. In about 90% of
> the cases, at least one of the drivers is American. Which seems to back up
> the Japanese stereotype that furriners can't drive -- at least not in Japan.

One (the?) reason given for the change in licensing law to requiring most
foreigners to take a performance test as part of switching their foreign
drivers over to Japanese ones, was the research claim that foreigners were
involved in accidents at a rate five times higher than Japanese.