Okay so typically in anime I assume the characters are meant to be Japanese unless otherwise specified, and in Speed Racer's case the original characters have conspicuously Japanese names (Go Mifune, after Toshiro Mifune) But then why does the Mach 5 have left-hand drive
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Replying to @arthur_affect
TIL that Japan is as contrary as the UK. I assume that the characters in everything are meant to be Japanese, regardless of whether it's specified or not. Pokemon? Japanese. Peaky Blinders? Japanese. Ben Hur? Japanese.
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Replying to @FaustFury
Yeah Japan is one of the few RHD countries where it's *not* because they were part of the British Empire In fact, Japan may have pushed the rest of Asia toward LHD, with countries like North and South Korea defiantly switching after WWII as an anti-Japanese thing
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