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Japan license plate: Registered classcode 1-digit

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

Japan license plate, Registered classcode 1-digit (documented since 1970), sample 4 57-48
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Format, years and the law

Format
9 99-99, for example 4 57-48 (9 any digit)
  • 運輸支局等を表示する文字
  • 分類番号
  • 平仮名
  • 四けた以下のアラビア数字

The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.

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, van, truck, bus, tractor, and machine.
Colours
Characters #00693E Background #FFFFFF
Size
330 × 165 mm · every country's size
  • Japan license plate, Registered classcode 1-digit 440×220 mm (documented since 1970)

    Registered classcode 1-digit 440×220 mm

    standard · 440 × 220 mm

Typeface
statutory drawing (no named typeface) · license plate fonts
About this plate
THE OLDEST SHAPE STILL IN THE STATUTE. It is here for recall, and for the honest statement that Japan never withdrew the form.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 別表第二: every row's code list begins with the bare single character (１、２、３、４、６、５、７、８、９、０) before the two- and three-character blocks https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/api/1/lawdata/345M50000800007
  2. 第十三条第一項第二号: 「二字以下のアラビア数字」, 'two or fewer', which is what admits the one-character form https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/345M50000800007
  3. secondary: single-digit class codes gave way to two-digit codes from October 1967, nationwide by April 1971 https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/日本のナンバープレート

This plate in your app

The series id is jp-registered-classcode-1digit. 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-registered-classcode-1digit")'
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