Japan license plate: Registered large special 2-digit

Retired Documented 1970 to 1999. Agricultural plates for 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 large special 2-digit (documented 1970 to 1999), sample 96 43-84

Format, years and the law

Format
99 99-99, for example 96 43-84 (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
Documented 1970 to 1999; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Agricultural: farm vehicles/equipment where separately serialized. Issued for tractor and machine.
Colours
Characters #00693E Background #FFFFFF
Size
330 × 165 mm · every country's size
  • Japan license plate, Registered large special 2-digit 440×220 mm (documented 1970 to 1999)

    Registered large special 2-digit 440×220 mm

    agricultural · 440 × 220 mm

Typeface
statutory drawing (no named typeface) · license plate fonts

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. secondary: two-digit codes from October 1967, nationwide by April 1971, last issued 1999 https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/日本のナンバープレート

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is jp-registered-large-special-2digit. 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-large-special-2digit")'