Talk:Vehicle registration plates of Japan

message: I moved the page to "Japanese license plates". Spelling in accordance with content of the article.
SpNeo 08:28, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move 

message: Could somebody explain what exactly "series" in the sentence  The number on the top line begins with a "5" or a "3" to indicate the series. means? I take care if the German wikipedia article and I like to clear the questions marks there. Thanks. -ThorstenS 07:10, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meaning of "licence series" 

message: I've added a sentence stating what the plates for personal vehicles owned by people in the US Military are (at least that I have seen through observation here). If there are any questions, ask me. (I live in Okinawa, and one of the plates on a van my family owns is 沖縄300Y3276 [if I recall correctly] if that helps.) CJewell (talk) 02:45, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  US Military Personally Owned Vehicles 

message: Is the place of registration part of the actual registration of the car? I have noticed the government records here in Ireland of a friend's car imported from Japan omits this and only says "599 SO 14-80" as the car's original registration. Is that sufficient or were they just too lazy to look up the kanji? --Zilog Jones 14:02, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: More than likely the second explanation, I'd say. The SO would be the romanization of an original そ hiragana appearing on the second line of the original plates as the first part of the serial index. Perhaps they thought that the characters representing the issuing office (which ought to be shown before the vehicle class – in this case, 599) were just some kind of alternative/repeat version of "SO": rather like SLIGEACH at the top of an Irish plate with an index beginning SO..! -- Picapica (talk) 12:33, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Importance of place of registration 

message: What type of license plate is this ? I can't see any explanation on the page.
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79.116.115.230 (talk) 02:58, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: I just removed the totally hopeless section which was MT from the Japanese page, I think. The whole page is a mess and needs serious cleanup from someone who finds this at least slightly interesting. Sorry, I don't know how to put the appropriate templates on the page. Perhaps someone could add them. Imaginatorium (talk) 07:14, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need for cleanup 

message: Are you sure about the dimensions of the license plates?  I don't have the latest regulation (necessarily), but this is the information regarding the license plate sizes that comes from JIS 5500 (1995), which discusses the measuring of photometric test points on the various license plates.  (I would embed a screendump of the relevant JIS 5500 page but I don't know how.)
Measuring points (dimensions from article given in parenthesis):
Large plate: 34 x 12  (44 x 22)
Medium plate: 25 x 10 (33 x 16.5)
Small plate: 18 x 17  (23 x 12.5)
Moped: 12 x 5 (20 x 10)?
Keep in mind these are measuring points interior to the plate.  So if you look at the dimensions, the large plate is +10 cm in both length and width (makes sense).  The medium plate is +8 L +6.5 W (still roughly the same scale, but not quite).  The small plate, though, is nearly square according to JIS 5500, but quite rectangular here.
I actually came to this page to try and find how to figure out which plate should be used, and was surprised by this apparent dimensional mismatch.  Any help in elucidating this would be appreciated.
Todd
Tirgang (talk) 17:30, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plate sizes 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: need to be folded in. The German article expands on this.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 11:09, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  United States Forces Japan 

message: Everyone I have talked to says the left-side hiragana is disregarded. It must have some meaning, else they wouldn't use it. Can anyone clarify?--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 00:05, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  hiragana 

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Why are the last two bold?? Jidanni (talk) 18:12, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Say why the last two are in bold font 

message: The information in the "vehicle class code section", in particular the table copied from www.tigerdude.com, is incorrect.  I haven't yet found an authoritative source, but as a resident of Japan, I know firsthand that the three digit type code must be considered in tandem with the plate color -- for example, the 4xx series vehicle class code on a yellow-plate (Kei) car does not mean the vehicle is a truck or van, nor does it mean the vehicle is over 600cc.
It looks to me at first glance like this information applies only to white/green plate (vehicles > 660cc, etc.) vehicles, not yellow/black plate Kei vehicles, but I can't say for sure.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 153.210.165.236 (talk) 00:29, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect vehicle type information