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Japan license plate: Kei passenger alnum

Issued today 2017 to today. 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 alnum (2017 to today), sample 5GV 70-33
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Format, years and the law

Format
5LL 99-99, for example 5GV 70-33 (L is any letter, 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
2017 to today. Still 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. ROMAN LETTERS IN THE KEI CLASS CODE. Same reform as the registered grid, different commencement date, and the difference is in the proviso rather than in a separate instrument: MLIT Ordinance No. 87 of 2016 carves 自動車登録規則 第十三条第一項第二号 and 別表第二 out of its delayed commencement, giving registered vehicles 2017-01-01, but the KEI table 別表第二の四 sits in the Enforcement Regulations amended by that ordinance's 第一条, whose only carve-out is Form No. 1 remark (6), so the kei alphabet commenced 2017-04-01.

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. 附則（平成二八年一二月二八日国土交通省令第八七号）第一条, the commencement proviso that gives the kei table 2017-04-01 https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/345M50000800007

This plate in your app

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