Japan is the birthplace of LED outdoor lighting including LED ambient lights, LED night safety street lights, which help to reduce crime, and other novel lighting fixtures.

Among the developed countries, Japan has a relatively higher aging population, and Japanese government as well as private enterprises pay much attention to the household and public lighting for the elderly and the visually impaired by providing them an indicator lighting system which emits far brighter light than the conventional night safety reflectors on the ground. Others lighting fixtures adopted in Japan include linear LED lights on staircases, and spherical LED street lights for the sidewalk.

The indicator lights on the road surface improves nighttime visibility for pedestrians and drivers, this is particularly beneficial for the elderly and the visually impaired as adequate lighting helps improve their safety by reducing accidents at night.