Kirk here. I may have mentioned that I'm building an online archive of posts to the page. It's mostly finished but I want to improve a few features before formally "launching" it. In the meantime, here's an old photo that the archive helped me find. Here's what I wrote at the time:

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In Japanese, you can write from top to bottom, left to right, and, on vehicles, front to back. ("OK TAXI," Kumamoto, Japan)
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The thing is, the front-to-back custom (which, on the right side of the vehicle means "right to left" instead of "left to right") is usually reserved for company names written in kanji. So, if you don't read kanji or aren't paying particular attention you might not notice. With "OK TAXI", however, it was pretty obvious to those of us from English speaking countries.

I say "was obvious" because these cute old cars are getting replaced by more modern vehicles with more modern designs and the English written in what English speakers would consider to be the "correct" direction. So much for local color. :(

Original post from 2012:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=362240597182712&set=a.625846489577146&type=3