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Japan license plate: Registered US forces

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

Japan license plate, Registered US forces (documented since 1970), sample 690 Y 87-10
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Format, years and the law

Format
999 L 99-99, for example 690 Y 87-10 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)
  • 運輸支局等を表示する文字
  • 分類番号
  • 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 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, and truck.
Colours
Characters #00693E Background #FFFFFF
Size
330 × 165 mm · every country's size
  • Japan license plate, Registered US forces 440×220 mm (documented since 1970)

    Registered US forces 440×220 mm

    standard · 440 × 220 mm

Typeface
statutory drawing (no named typeface) · license plate fonts
About this plate
THE ONE JAPANESE PLATE WHOSE ASCII PROJECTION IS COMPLETE.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 別表第三 group 4: 「日本国籍を有しない者が所有する自家用自動車で、法令の規定により関税又は消費税が免除されているもの及び別に国土交通大臣が指定するもの」 -> ＥＨＫＭＴＹよ https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/api/1/lawdata/345M50000800007
  2. 第十三条第一項第三号: the use-mark field is 「平仮名又はローマ字」, Roman letters are on the face of the rule, not an exception to it https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/345M50000800007
  3. 第一号様式（自動車登録番号標）（第十一条関係） remark (3): the colours are the ordinary 自家用 colours; nothing in the Form distinguishes this series visually except the mark itself https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/326M50000800074

This plate in your app

The series id is jp-registered-usforces. 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-usforces")'
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