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Japan license plate: Registered goods 3-digit

Issued today 1998 to today. Standard plates for truck 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, Registered goods 3-digit (1998 to today), sample 195 47-82
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Format, years and the law

Format
199 99-99, for example 195 47-82 (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
1998 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for truck and van.
Colours
Characters #00693E Background #FFFFFF
Size
330 × 165 mm · every country's size
  • Japan license plate, Registered goods 3-digit 440×220 mm (1998 to today)

    Registered goods 3-digit 440×220 mm

    standard · 440 × 220 mm

Typeface
statutory drawing (no named typeface) · license plate fonts
About this plate
The heavy-truck block; a 1-series plate on a green ground is a licensed freight carrier. THREE-DIGIT NUMERIC CLASS CODE, the current ordinary issue. The period claim is the weakest in this file and is labelled accordingly. What IS primary: the 運輸白書 (Ministry of Transport White Paper) for 1998 records that the 希望番号制 (desired-number system) started 「１０年５月６日より、全国２６地域で」, 6 May 1998, in 26 named areas, and the desired-number system is what the third digit exists to serve. What is NOT primary: the 3-digit rollout dates themselves. ja.wikipedia gives 19 May 1998 for the pilot areas and 14 May 1999 for the nationwide switch.
How the region is encoded
It names the OFFICE of the vehicle's base of use at the moment the number was assigned, not the keeper's address, and not necessarily the current location: 第十三条第二項 preserves a number across a boundary redraw. The class code carries no geography at all.

Legal basis and sources

  1. laws.e-gov.go.jp https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/345M50000800007
  2. 第一号様式（自動車登録番号標）（第十一条関係） remark (3): 「自動車登録番号標の塗色は、事業用自動車にあつては緑地に白文字とし、自家用自動車にあつては白地に緑文字とするほか、国土交通大臣の定めるところによる。」 and remarks (4)-(7) + the drawing: 330 x 165 mm, (440 x 220) for the vehicles in the remark (4) proviso https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/326M50000800074
  3. laws.e-gov.go.jp https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/api/1/lawdata/345M50000800007
  4. 運輸白書 平成10年: 「１０年５月６日より、全国２６地域で希望ナンバー制を実施した」 + the 26 areas and the 26 lottery numbers https://www.mlit.go.jp/hakusyo/transport/heisei10/topic/11.html
  5. secondary: 分類番号3桁化 dated 1998-05-19 (pilot) and 1999-05-14 (nationwide), tagged secondary, see notes https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/日本のナンバープレート

Before and after

Japan license plate, Registered goods 2-digit (documented 1970 to 1999) It replaced Registered goods 2-digit documented 1970 to 1999

This plate in your app

The series id is jp-registered-goods-3digit. 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-goods-3digit")'
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