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Japan license plate: Temporary kei

Issued today 1951 to today. Temporary plates for motorcycle, issued by 国土交通省 (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism). One of 47 Japan license plates.

Japan license plate, Temporary kei (1951 to today), sample 40-10
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Format, years and the law

Format
99-99, for example 40-10 (9 any digit)
  • 運輸支局等を表示する文字
  • 四けた以下の数字

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
1951 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
230 × 125 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE KEI TEMPORARY PLATE (臨時運転番号標), lent under 第六十三条の二第三項ただし書 where a 検査対象外軽自動車 must run for a test or a transfer before its vehicle number is assigned. It is the smallest red-bordered plate in the system (230 x 125 mm) and the only one whose border width the instrument fixes numerically.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 第九十七条の三第一項-第三項: 検査対象外軽自動車 are notified rather than inspected, and the plate provisions are left to ministerial ordinance https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/326AC0000000185
  2. 第六十三条の二第三項ただし書 + 第四項 + 第十五号様式: the 臨時運転番号標 lent to a 検査対象外軽自動車 for a test run or transfer, and its remarks (1)-(7) https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/326M50000800074

This plate in your app

The series id is jp-temporary-kei. 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-temporary-kei")'
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