Changes Coming to Driver's License Issuing for Foreigners

[Yomiuri Shimbun] Regarding the "foreign driver's license conversion" system, which allows a foreign driver's license to be converted into a Japanese license, National Police Agency Commissioner General Yoshinobu Kusunoki revealed at a regular press conference on the 22nd that the agency is considering tightening the screening process and revising the system to exclude foreign tourists from applying.

Changes coming to driver's license issuing for foreigners

Earlier this year, BigFamJapan wrote an interesting blog about the ease of people from abroad exchanging driver's licenses here -- the requirement isn't even that you're a resident of Japan at present. I wasn't aware of it until reading that blog, and I was pretty shocked by how lax things are, but it looks like now the government is taking steps to tighten that up for foreign nationals.Image created via CanvaAs is often the case, it has taken a…

At a regular press conference on the 22nd, National Police Agency Commissioner General Yoshinobu Kusunoki revealed that the "Foreign Driver's License Conversion" system, which allows foreigners to switch their home country's driver's license to a Japanese license, is being reviewed with the aim of requiring the submission of a copy of resident registration as a general rule in order to tighten address verification.