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Japan license plate: Kei US forces

Issued today Documented since 1970. Standard plates for car and van, issued by 国土交通省 (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism). One of 47 Japan license plates.

Japan license plate, Kei US forces (documented since 1970), sample 513 B 67-48
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Format, years and the law

Format
599 L 99-99, for example 513 B 67-48 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)
  • 運輸支局等を表示する文字
  • 分類番号
  • 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 since 1970; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car and van.
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 COUNTERPART OF THE Y PLATE, AND ITS ALPHABET IS DIFFERENT. Where a registered duty-exempt vehicle takes one of ＥＨＫＭＴＹよ, a kei one takes Ａ or Ｂ and nothing else (別表第二の五 group 4, note also that the kei row omits the 「及び別に国土交通大臣が指定するもの」 tail its registered sibling carries, so the kei category is the narrower of the two). Colours are the ordinary kei 自家用 colours: black on yellow.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 別表第二の五 group 4: 「日本国籍を有しない者が所有する自家用自動車で、法令の規定により関税又は消費税が免除されているもの。」 -> ＡＢ https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/api/1/lawdata/326M50000800074
  2. 第三十六条の十七第一項第三号 (「平仮名又はローマ字」) and 別表第二の四 (the class-code ranges the strict twin restricts to) https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/326M50000800074

This plate in your app

The series id is jp-kei-usforces. 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-usforces")'
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