If you think that's funny, you'll be in stitches when you learn how the Japanese count years.

When the era changed from Heisei to Reiwa in 2019, people were left carrying driving licenses with expiry dates in Heisei 32,33,34, and 35 - years that never came to be. Who could have foreseen such an issue? [/sarcasm]. And who installed a queue management system at the Japanese embassy in London, which required a hillbilly hack to display gan (元)? (Gan is used rather than number 1, during the first, partial year of the new era). Oops.


LCD screen with "gan" taped over the location for year number.

LCD screen with "gan" taped over the location for year number.