Article 105-2Driving Record Certificates and Recording of Driving Record Information
第百五条の二（運転経歴証明書及び運転経歴情報の記録）
A person whose license has been revoked pursuant to Article 104-4, paragraph (2) (excluding a person who received a license pursuant to paragraph (3) of that Article) and a person whose license has lost its effect pursuant to the preceding Article (excluding a person who, on the day preceding the day on which the license lost its effect, falls under the criteria for revocation of a license under Article 90, paragraph (5), and any other person specified by Cabinet Order) may apply to the public safety commission with jurisdiction over the person's domicile for the issuance of a driving record certificate (meaning a document that shows the person's record of driving a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle during the five years before the day on which the person received the revocation or the day on which the license lost its effect, by a category corresponding to the categories of driver with an exemplary record, driver with a satisfactory record, or driver with a violation or a short record prescribed in the upper column of the table in Article 95-6, paragraph (1) (referred to as the "driving record category" in paragraph (3)); the same applies in this Article and the following Article).
第百四条の四第二項の規定により免許を取り消された者（同条第三項の規定により免許を受けた者を除く。）及び前条の規定により免許が失効した者（当該免許が失効した日の前日において第九十条第五項の規定による免許の取消しの基準に該当する者その他の政令で定める者を除く。）は、その者の住所地を管轄する公安委員会に対し、運転経歴証明書（当該取消しを受けた日又は当該免許が失効した日前五年間の自動車等の運転に関する経歴について、第九十五条の六第一項の表の上欄に規定する優良運転者、一般運転者又は違反運転者等の区分に準じた区分（第三項において「運転経歴区分」という。）により表示する書面をいう。以下この条及び次条において同じ。）の交付を申請することができる。
A public safety commission to which a person has applied under the preceding paragraph must issue a driving record certificate pursuant to Cabinet Order. This being the case, driving record certificates must not be confusingly similar in appearance to licenses.
A person prescribed in paragraph (1) may apply to the public safety commission with jurisdiction over the person's domicile for the recording of driving record information (meaning information that shows, by driving record category, the person's record of driving a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle during the five years before the day on which the person received the revocation of a license under Article 104-4, paragraph (2) or the day on which the license lost its effect pursuant to the preceding Article; the same applies in this Article and the following Article) in the segmented part of the person's Individual Number Card.
A public safety commission that has received an application under the preceding paragraph is to record the driving record information in the segmented part of the person's Individual Number Card by Electronic or Magnetic Means, pursuant to Cabinet Order.
Beyond what is prescribed in the preceding paragraphs, Cabinet Office Order provides for the necessary particulars regarding driving record certificates and the recording of driving record information.