A new safety standard for Japanese baby strollers
FTV reports on how Japanese companies have created a new safety standard for baby strollers:
With Japanese consumers tending to buy stylish foreign strollers, Japanese manufacturers are hoping to increase sales by focusing on safety issues. They have placed particular stress on the importance of being able to fold up the stroller without there being any risk of injuring fingers. The report also points out that manufacturers have made the bases of stroller wheels thicker to avoid the possibility of train doors fully closing around part of the stroller (it happened once in South Korea). Special stickers will identify the strollers that pass the new safety requirements.
Although some of the popular foreign strollers would probably not meet the new standard, a salesperson at a store selling imported strollers says that most of them have passed the strict safety standards of their respective countries, so he believes they are quite safe.
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