Gaimen50-question practice tests in the real exam formatWhen the traffic light shows a green right-turn arrow, you may turn right but you may not make a U-turn.
Answer: ✕ False
Explanation
With a green right-turn arrow, you may make a U-turn as well as a right turn (except in places where U-turns are prohibited).
More questions on “Traffic signals”
- When a yellow arrow signal is shown, vehicles may proceed in the direction of the arrow.
- Even when a green right-turn arrow is shown, motorized bicycles (mopeds) that must make a two-step right turn, and light vehicles, may not start turning right.
- A green traffic light means 'go,' so vehicles facing it must always proceed.
- When a police officer is directing traffic with hand signals and they differ from the traffic light, you must follow the officer's hand signals.
- When a police officer raises an arm straight up, traffic facing the front of the officer's body is under the same rule as a red light.
- At a place away from any intersection, where there is no pedestrian crossing, bicycle crossing lane, or railroad crossing, if a traffic light is installed you must stop just before the traffic light.
Questions and explanations are written against Japan’s Road Traffic Act and the National Police Agency’s Rules of the Road. These are not official exam questions.