I always though "jaywalking" was one of those US-only concepts. It certainly doesn't exist here¹ and I've never heard it from anybody else.

1 - We do have a fine for crossing a street close to the pedestrian crossing but not on it. It was applied at least once, and I know because it made the news. The person that received it contested it and didn't pay.

Living in Chofu, Tokyo and can confirm I see it everyday. The one exception I've learned is if there's children in view, people (seemingly) will not jaywalk as to not set a bad example. There's a bad apple every now and then but this largely holds up from my observation.

Also people will wait for someone to break the ice and jaywalk first, then a bunch will follow lolol.

It's worse, it's a fascist dogwhistle.

Hello Kitty with a rifle implies Maoist-tank.

Yup, pushed by car companies actually. Capitalism yay!

:/

...Invented by carmakers to indemnify their product from liability.

Wanna know how dumb my brain is? I almost told you that America isn't the only place people walk across the street not at an intersection. I thought you to be an idiot.

Alas, it is I. The idiot.

He tried, but as an old man he's dead now.

Which is good because he did awful, awful things in the invasion of China.

Japanese cities are so lovely.

People regularly jaywalk in Japan as well. Not everyone, but it's not a rare sight either. It might have been different back when mama moved to Japan.

cars drive slowly and carefully because their drivers acknowledge the street as a shared space.

As someone who lives in Japan, I can assure you that this isn't true.

My life is going to end under the wheels of a hi ace or a mamachari.

"And then the entire neighbourhood clapped!"

I was so confused as a child in the UK when after hearing about “jaywalking” being a crime for years I finally found out it meant “crossing the street”

the action of crossing a road somewhere where there’s no pedestrian crossing, or while it’s not the pedestrian’s turn

it’s a word that was invented by car lobbies to turn something done by humans for millennia (cross a road) into a shameful action, and in some places, a crime

walking like a small blue bird

A baby hasn't been established so I dispute your assumption