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tonikoro wrote:Is there a way to take the test:
A. -In english (which I'd rather do).
B. take a drivers School (also in English, although japanese would not be so bad)
and C. ways of avoiding paying Sanjyu-SanjyuGoMan all together?.
Robato wrote:As for me, I will renew my international license every year
Article 107-2
A person who holds a driver's license under Section 1 of Article 24 of the Convention on Road Traffic [blah, blah, blah] (hereinafter referred to as an "International Driver's License" in this Article) [blah, blah, blah] may [blah, blah, blah] drive a motor vehicle etc. [blah, blah, blah] for the period of one year starting from the date of landing in Japan [blah, blah, blah..]
tonikoro wrote:But one detail that makes me wonder is the fack that my Lic from back home has expired since I've been here.
Caustic Saint wrote:Just curious. How much of this applies to motorcycles as well? I've gotten used to having a bike again and would like to pick one up once I move to Japan if it's not going to be a huge hassle.
Anybody got any experience with this side of things?
omae mona wrote:Careful, my friend. The law changed. That license is no longer worth the paper it's written on if you've been in Japan for a year or more. You can always hope for a dumb cop, but as of June 2002:
I am betting that at least 1 person replies to this message with two words: "oh shit"
tonikoro wrote:Man.. F@ck that..
Damn do I ever miss the DMV, less than 20 bucks and on the road.. DOne. If ever there was a country that DIDN'T want people to drive. -Let alone having FG's driving around being all independant, and Un-FG'd like..
tonikoro wrote:Man.. F@ck that..
Damn do I ever miss the DMV, less than 20 bucks and on the road.. DOne. If ever there was a country that DIDN'T want people to drive. -Let alone having FG's driving around being all independant, and Un-FG'd like..
Robato wrote:tonikoro wrote:Man.. F@ck that..
Damn do I ever miss the DMV, less than 20 bucks and on the road.. DOne. If ever there was a country that DIDN'T want people to drive. -Let alone having FG's driving around being all independant, and Un-FG'd like..
yeah whats funny is the US has 1/5th of the accident rate of Japan!!! (which is strange because you can get a license at 16 AND EVERYONE OWNS A CAR AND DRIVES....nobody takes public transportation in the US)
Then again, I guess the reason why Japan doesnt want people to drive is because the high accident status japan has.
kamenr wrote:robato wrote:yeah whats funny is the US has 1/5th of the accident rate of Japan!!! (which is strange because you can get a license at 16 AND EVERYONE OWNS A CAR AND DRIVES....nobody takes public transportation in the US)
Then again, I guess the reason why Japan doesnt want people to drive is because the high accident status japan has.
Dunno where you get your numbers, but AFAIK Japan's fatality rate is roughly half that of the US, which has about the worst rate in the heavily mechanized countries. I think this is probably related to the number of highway miles driven. Japanese don't drive many highway miles, and that is where people are most likely to die.
Robato wrote:So I was off on my figures about the US have 1/5 the accidents, when it should have been 1/3rd.....but I guess out of that 1/3 most end up dying in the US (rather than just getting injured like the Japanese).....maybe US cars dont have the safty specs of a Japanese car?
kamenr wrote:I doubt that the US fleet is inferior in safety specs. For one thing, there are no kei cars in the US. And Japanese domestic models are notorious for being under spec in safety.
Anyway, official Japan statistics in any area are always suspect.
Robato wrote:kamenr wrote:I doubt that the US fleet is inferior in safety specs. For one thing, there are no kei cars in the US. And Japanese domestic models are notorious for being under spec in safety.
Anyway, official Japan statistics in any area are always suspect.
well it could be due to speed limits as well....you drive a lot slower here. Maybe a lot of deaths are due to running off the road going 70mph on the highway in the US.....where as someone scraping up against the wall (cause the road is too narrow) going 30 kilometers an hour would most definitely live.
I just found another page (although I dont have the link) that showed that Japan has only a little more accidents than the US. Seems none of these sites agree on statistics. Either way, they all seem to show, more accidents in Japan and more fatalities in the US. (This shows me that I would rather drive in Japan as far as safety though)
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