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Japan license plate: Registered large special alnum

Issued today 2017 to today. 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 alnum (2017 to today), sample 9SP 29-15
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Format, years and the law

Format
9LL 99-99, for example 9SP 29-15 (L is any letter, 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
2017 to today. Still 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 alnum 440×220 mm (2017 to today)

    Registered large special alnum 440×220 mm

    agricultural · 440 × 220 mm

Typeface
statutory drawing (no named typeface) · license plate fonts
About this plate
ROMAN LETTERS IN THE CLASS CODE, the newest Japanese grammar and the cleanest era signal on the plate. Any letter in the class code dates the ASSIGNMENT to 2017 or later, because 第十三条第一項第二号 did not admit one before MLIT Ordinance No. 87 of 2016 took effect on 1 January 2017 (the amendments to 第十三条第一項第二号 and 別表第二 are expressly carved OUT of the 1 April 2017 delay). The letters are issued only when the numeric block for a place-and-class combination is exhausted, so they appear first in the busiest offices; ja.wikipedia reports the first issue on 12 January 2018 at 練馬, which is recorded as secondary corroboration and not as this series' start.

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. 附則（平成二八年一二月二八日国土交通省令第八七号）第一条, the 2017-01-01 commencement of the 第十三条第一項第二号 and 別表第二 amendments https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/345M50000800007
  5. secondary: first alphabet plate issued 2018-01-12 at 練馬 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-large-special-alnum. 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-alnum")'
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