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Japan license plate: Kei goods 3-digit

Issued today 2005 to today. Standard plates for van and truck, issued by 国土交通省 (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism). One of 47 Japan license plates.

Japan license plate, Kei goods 3-digit (2005 to today), sample 484 28-74
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Format, years and the law

Format
499 99-99, for example 484 28-74 (9 any digit)
  • 運輸支局等を表示する文字
  • 分類番号
  • 平仮名又はローマ字
  • 四けた以下のアラビア数字

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2005 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for van and truck.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFD400
Size
330 × 165 mm · every country's size
Typeface
statutory drawing (no named typeface) · license plate fonts
About this plate
The kei van and kei truck, the working half of the yellow-plate fleet. THREE-DIGIT NUMERIC KEI CLASS CODE, the current ordinary kei issue. THE OVERFLOW BLOCKS ARE NOT SYMMETRIC WITH THE TWO-DIGIT ONES, and this is the fact a parse API needs: 別表第二の四 gives kei goods 「４０から４９まで、４００から４９９まで、６００から６９９まで」, a 40-49 two-digit block but BOTH 400-499 and 600-699 in three digits.
How the region is encoded
Kei numbers use the SAME statutory office table as registered vehicles, by the express cross-reference in 道路運送車両法施行規則 第三十六条の十七第二項 (「…自動車登録規則…の別表第一に定めるところによる。」). A kei plate therefore decodes to a place with exactly the registered plate's confidence and exactly its caveats.

Legal basis and sources

  1. laws.e-gov.go.jp https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/326M50000800074
  2. 第四十五条第一項第二号 + 第十二号様式 remark (3): 「車両番号標の塗色は、事業用自動車にあつては黒地に黄文字とし、自家用自動車にあつては黄地に黒文字とするほか、国土交通大臣の定めるところによる。」; the drawing gives 330 x 165 mm https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/326M50000800074
  3. laws.e-gov.go.jp https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/api/1/lawdata/326M50000800074
  4. 第五十九条 (検査対象軽自動車 defined), 第六十条第一項 (the vehicle number is assigned on first inspection), 第七十三条第一項 (display obligation) https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/326AC0000000185
  5. secondary: kei three-digit class codes and the kei desired-number system from 2005-01-04 https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/日本のナンバープレート

Before and after

Japan license plate, Kei goods 2-digit (documented 1970 to 2005) It replaced Kei goods 2-digit documented 1970 to 2005

This plate in your app

The series id is jp-kei-goods-3digit. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Japan's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/jp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "jp-kei-goods-3digit")'
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