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Japan license plate: Kei passenger 2-digit

Retired Documented 1970 to 2005. Standard plates for car, issued by 国土交通省 (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism). One of 47 Japan license plates.

Japan license plate, Kei passenger 2-digit (documented 1970 to 2005), sample 55 79-26
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Format, years and the law

Format
59 99-99, for example 55 79-26 (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
Documented 1970 to 2005; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car.
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 passenger car, the single most numerous vehicle class on Japanese roads. TWO-DIGIT KEI CLASS CODE. 別表第二の四 lists the two-digit block for this range and 第三十六条の十七第一項第二号 sanctions 「二字のアラビア数字」.

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 passenger 3-digit (2005 to today) Replaced by Kei passenger 3-digit 2005 to today

This plate in your app

The series id is jp-kei-passenger-2digit. 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-passenger-2digit")'
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