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Japan license plate: Temporary operation

Issued today 1951 to today. Temporary plates for car, van, truck, bus, and 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 operation (1951 to today), sample 95-40
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Format, years and the law

Format
99-99, for example 95-40 (9 any digit)
  • 運輸支局等を表示する文字
  • 四けた以下の数字
  • 斜線
  • 当該行政庁名: omitted where the plate is lent by a 運輸監理部長 or 運輸支局長 (Form No. 3 remark (1) proviso)

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 car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
330 × 165 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE RED-DIAGONAL PLATE. Its office table is NOT the registration table: Form No. 3 remark (2) prints its own list of roughly sixty 運輸支局/自動車検査登録事務所 marks, containing none of the ご当地ナンバー place names, and Forms No. 5 and No. 15 both adopt it by reference. A decoder that resolves 知床 or 富士山 on a red-striped plate has used the wrong table.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 第三十四条-第三十六条: 臨時運行の許可, a municipality or transport office may permit a vehicle without a valid registration to run for a limited period https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/326AC0000000185
  2. 第二十五条第一項 + 第三号様式: remark (1) (the four printed elements), remark (2) (the SEPARATE office table), remark (4) (「白地に黒文字とし、斜線は赤色とすること」) https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/326M50000800074

This plate in your app

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