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Sarutaro wrote:Do you have a source? Seems ignored by J-news so far...
Taro Toporific wrote:Under the law, someone who lives in Japan but obtains an international driver's license during a less-than-three-month absence from Japan is not permitted to drive in Japan with the document, as Carver was doing, the police said.
Taro Toporific wrote:Obtaining a Japanese driver's license sometimes takes weeks and costs around 200,000yen.
Kanchou wrote:That's only if you pass on the first time...
It took me five tries (apparently Fukushima license cops are among the most anal? Is what I heard anyway) and that's 1000 KM worth of driving, and five days of my vacation time.
Word to the wise, spend 4000-8000 for 1 or 2 hours of lessons at a school. They will teach you how to pass the exam. Actual driving skill is irrelevant.
Also request the same guy every time... I didn't pass until I got the guy I had just failed with the day before, and after I took one lesson that morning.
Kanchou wrote:That's only if you pass on the first time...
It took me five tries (apparently Fukushima license cops are among the most anal? Is what I heard anyway) and that's 1000 KM worth of driving, and five days of my vacation time.
Word to the wise, spend 4000-8000 for 1 or 2 hours of lessons at a school. They will teach you how to pass the exam. Actual driving skill is irrelevant.
Also request the same guy every time... I didn't pass until I got the guy I had just failed with the day before, and after I took one lesson that morning.
GomiGirl wrote:For me it just took up an afternoon of my time waiting for the paperwork, an eye test and a few documents translated. Australians just get to show proof of a valid licence back home and a clean driving record and they get a J-licence without the need to take the test.
I think it's been posted before, but Japan recognizes and will reciprocate for any country that has a national driver's license and what the Gomi Gal did is all that is required. However, countries like the US that have differing driver's license by states, hence different traffic laws, represent too much work to determine if the license is compatible to Japan. i.e. each state DMV Code would have to be translated and applied. Therefore, Yanks and similar countries get to test....GomiGirl wrote:For me it just took up an afternoon of my time waiting for the paperwork, an eye test and a few documents translated. Australians just get to show proof of a valid licence back home and a clean driving record and they get a J-licence without the need to take the test.
Greji wrote:I think it's been posted before, but Japan recognizes and will reciprocate for any country that has a national driver's license and what the Gomi Gal did is all that is required. However, countries like the US that have differing driver's license by states, hence different traffic laws, represent too much work to determine if the license is compatible to Japan. i.e. each state DMV Code would have to be translated and applied. Therefore, Yanks and similar countries get to test....
Greji wrote:I think it's been posted before, but Japan recognizes and will reciprocate for any country that has a national driver's license and what the Gomi Gal did is all that is required. However, countries like the US that have differing driver's license by states, hence different traffic laws, represent too much work to determine if the license is compatible to Japan. i.e. each state DMV Code would have to be translated and applied. Therefore, Yanks and similar countries get to test....
omae mona wrote:damn name, I'm a little confused. If the U.S. states did not bother to submit the paperwork that all other foreign goverments are required to submit, isn't it most likely that is the sole reason US drivers need to take a driving test? I am not sure I understand where all this WWII emotional baggage fits in.
Taro Toporific wrote:Twenty-five years ago....Hell, nobody even offered me a Japanese rules of the road booklet in engrish
chokonen888 wrote:That hasn't changed
omae mona wrote:damn name, I'm a little confused. If the U.S. states did not bother to submit the paperwork that all other foreign goverments are required to submit, isn't it most likely that is the sole reason US drivers need to take a driving test? [color="Red"]That is the sole reason they take the test.[/color]
Are you saying that otherwise the NPA would have said "ah, we like the U.S. so much that we'll bend the rules and not require the paperwork that everybody else has to submit"? This does not seem very typical of Japanese government operating procedure to me...
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