The ministry will allow only multicolor versions of gotochi license plates from as early as the next round of solicitations for plate designs, in an effort to ease the burden on license plate ...

A Japanese license plate bears a locality and a small number topping a hiragana character and up to four large digits below. Hiragana characters lack the suggestiveness of kanji, but still, shi (し) is ...

Coming from the U.S., where each state has its own, distinctive license plate, I was pretty surprised to find out that in Japan there’s really just plate one design for private-use, full-size ...