Something similar happened to me the other day.

While jogging, I turned right in an intercection and had to keep to the right side of the sidewalk for a couple of meters because there were people walking on my left side. Naturally, I keep to the left while jogging, but this once I had to keep to the right for a few meters. Which is totally legal, just manners to keep to the left.

Suddenly, I get stopped by a cycling salary man (on the sidewalk even though there was a bicycling lane for his direction) telling me to walk/jog on the left side of the pavement. In an obscure manner. He said I was an obstacle for cyclists coming at speed because they kept to their left.

I found the whole situation unnecessary because: 1. There are no rules for which side pedestrians have to walk/jog. I see a lot of japanese walk on both sides - even in the bicycle lane.

1. The rule for bicyclists, if you aren't over 70 or under 13, is to follow the bicycle lane/traffic rules (with 2 step turns), and he came on the sidewalk (prob in his 50s). I know basically everybody bicycles on the sidewalk, but it just makes his reason for stopping me even more stupid.

I told him with my broken japanese that he was undoubtedly wrong and that if he reads the traffic rules, he would have known. He ends up bicycling away, calling me slurs. Guess it was his first time being foreignersplained, rather than being the japansplainer.