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Japan license plate: Motorcycle over 250 cc combination

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

Japan license plate, Motorcycle over 250 cc combination (documented since 1970), sample C 37-48
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Format, years and the law

Format
L 99-99, for example C 37-48 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)
  • 運輸支局等を表示する文字
  • 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 since 1970; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #00693E Background #FFFFFF
Size
230 × 125 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE TWO-CHARACTER USE MARK, AND THE ONLY ORDINARY PRIVATE JAPANESE PLATE THAT PRINTS A LATIN CAPITAL. 別表第三 group 2 gives private motorcycles a second form: a character from {Ｃ, Ｌ, Ｖ} FOLLOWED BY one of the ordinary hiragana, Cあ, Lあ, Vあ and so on, which multiplies the available serial space by three when the single characters run out. Form No. 13 remark (6) confirms it physically by prescribing widths for the case where a 文字の組合せ is used.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 別表第三 group 2: 「（１） 次に掲げる文字 あいうえかきくけこ… （２） 次に掲げる文字をその順序により組み合わせたもの イ ＣＬＶ ロ （１）に掲げる文字」 https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/api/1/lawdata/326M50000800074
  2. 第十三号様式 remark (6): the 17.5 mm office-mark width and 19 mm Latin-letter width prescribed 「自家用又は事業用の別等を表示する文字として文字の組合せを用いる場合」, the physical confirmation that the combination is real https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/326M50000800074

This plate in your app

The series id is jp-motorcycle-over250-combination. 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-motorcycle-over250-combination")'
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