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A plate naming the vehicles a sign applies to.
Also known as: Vehicle class plate Japan, Except plate Japan
Names the classes of vehicle to which the Japanese sign above it applies, or from which it excepts them.
Names the vehicle classes the sign above applies to.
Contexts: Road signage
Turns on Japan's statutory vehicle classes, which are defined by displacement, seating and load rather than by the weight bands most European schedules use, so a plate is not translatable into another country's categories without loss.
Contexts: Road signage
A small wide rectangle carrying written characters naming a vehicle class, sometimes with a small vehicle figure beside them.