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A hatched white area painted between traffic streams.
Also known as: Zebra zone Japan, Hatched area Japan
Marks a Japanese area of carriageway that channels traffic and that vehicles are directed away from.
Channels traffic away from an area of carriageway.
Contexts: Road signage
Is widely believed in Japan to be a place a vehicle may not enter, and is not: the hatching directs traffic rather than prohibiting entry, a gap between the marking's meaning and its popular reading that Japanese driver guidance addresses explicitly.
Contexts: Road signage
A bounded area filled with parallel diagonal strokes, tapering as the lanes it separates converge.