I was watching a TV program called 「きょうは何の日」 (lit. “What day is today?“). This show tells something that happened in history on the same date in history. Something like “On this date in history…” might be a better translation of the show’s title. It said that 140 years ago today, on 1870 March 22, the 「人力車」 (“rickshaw“) was invented in Japan. (Click he..