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Japan license plate: Registered passenger 2-digit

Retired Documented 1970 to 1999. Standard plates for car, issued by 国土交通省 (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism). One of 47 Japan license plates.

Japan license plate, Registered passenger 2-digit (documented 1970 to 1999), sample 32 71-54
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Format, years and the law

Format
39 99-99, for example 32 71-54 (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
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car.
Colours
Characters #00693E Background #FFFFFF
Size
330 × 165 mm · every country's size
  • Japan license plate, Registered passenger 2-digit 440×220 mm (documented 1970 to 1999)

    Registered passenger 2-digit 440×220 mm

    standard · 440 × 220 mm

Typeface
statutory drawing (no named typeface) · license plate fonts
About this plate
The flagship series: this is the ordinary Japanese saloon, and the one number every Japanese driver can read off a plate.

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

Japan license plate, Registered passenger 3-digit (1998 to today) Replaced by Registered passenger 3-digit 1998 to today

This plate in your app

The series id is jp-registered-passenger-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-passenger-2digit")'
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