①Pursuant to Cabinet Office Order, the revocation or suspension of a license under Article 103, paragraph (1), (2), or (4), Article 104-2-2, paragraph (1), (2), or (4), Article 104-2-3, paragraph (1) or (3), Article 103, paragraph (4) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (5) of that Article, or paragraph (1), (2), or (4) of the preceding Article is to be carried out through the issuance of a document giving the details of and reasons for the revocation or suspension to the person subject to the revocation or suspension.

②If a public safety commission has been unable to issue a document as under the preceding paragraph because the person's whereabouts are unknown or for any other reason, and a police officer learns the whereabouts of the person, the police officer may order the person to appear so as to be issued the document, specifying a date, time, and place for the person to appear, pursuant to Cabinet Office Order.

③Pursuant to Cabinet Office Order, a police officer who has issued an order under the preceding paragraph must promptly notify the public safety commission with jurisdiction over the domicile of the person subject to the order (or, if the public safety commission that revoked or suspended the person's license as prescribed in paragraph (1) differs from the public safety commission with jurisdiction over the person's domicile, each of those public safety commissions) of the name and address of the person subject to the order, the date, time, and place at which the person is to appear under the order, and other necessary information.

①A licensee may apply to the public safety commission with jurisdiction over the domicile thereof for the revocation of a license. Notwithstanding Article 89, paragraph (1) and Article 90-2, paragraph (1), in such a case, the licensee may also request to be issued another type of license when the license subject to the application is revoked (but only the type of license that Cabinet Order prescribes for each type of license revoked).

②A public safety commission to which a person has applied under the preceding paragraph must revoke the license subject to the application, pursuant to Cabinet Order.

③A public safety commission that has revoked a license pursuant to the preceding paragraph may grant the license subject to the application to the person who made the application under paragraph (1), when it has received from that person the return of the license pertaining to that license pursuant to Article 106-3, paragraph (1), item (i), or has carried out the deletion of the license information record of that person pursuant to Article 106-4, paragraph (1), item (i) (or, in the case where the person who made the application under paragraph (1) holds a license (excluding one pertaining to a provisional license; the same applies in the following Article) and an Individual Number Card bearing a license information record, when it has received the return of that license and has carried out the deletion of that license information record).

④A person is deemed to have been issued a license that is granted pursuant to the preceding paragraph on the date that the person was issued the license that was revoked pursuant to paragraph (2).

⑤Beyond what is prescribed in the preceding paragraphs, Cabinet Office Order provides for the necessary particulars regarding the revocation of licenses under paragraph (2).

A license loses its effect if the person who received the license has not received license renewal (or, in the case of a person who holds a license and an Individual Number Card bearing a license information record, if the person has received neither renewal of the valid period of the license nor renewal of the valid period of the license information record).

①A 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).

②A 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.

③A 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.

④A 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.

⑤Beyond 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.

A public safety commission must report the information that Cabinet Office Order prescribes to the National Public Safety Commission on granting a license pursuant to the main clause of Article 90, paragraph (1) or Article 104-4, paragraph (3); on attaching or changing a condition pursuant to Article 91 or Article 91-2, paragraph (2); on receiving a filing as under Article 94, paragraph (1) (including cases where it is applied with the terms replaced pursuant to Article 95-5, paragraph (2)); on reissuing a license under Article 94, paragraph (2); on making the recording of specified license information pursuant to Article 95-2, paragraph (3); on receiving the return of a license under paragraph (4) of that Article; on carrying out the deletion of the license information record pursuant to paragraph (10) of that Article; on issuing a license pursuant to paragraph (11) of that Article; on carrying out license renewal pursuant to Article 101, paragraph (6) or Article 101-2, paragraph (4); on notifying a person as under Article 102, paragraph (6); on issuing a driving record certificate pursuant to paragraph (2) of the preceding Article; on recording driving record information pursuant to paragraph (4) of that Article; on taking a measure under the proviso to Article 90, paragraph (1), Article 90, paragraph (2), (5), (6), (9), (10), or (12), Article 97-3, paragraph (3), Article 103, paragraph (1), (2), (4), (7), (8), or (10), Article 104-2-2, paragraph (1), (2), or (4), Article 104-2-3, paragraph (1) or (3), Article 103, paragraph (4) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (5) of Article 104-2-3, Article 104-2-4, paragraph (1), (2), or (4), or Article 104-4, paragraph (2); or on issuing an order under Article 90, paragraph (8), Article 102, paragraph (1) through paragraph (4), or Article 103, paragraph (6); as well as when the chief of the police station takes a measure under Article 103-2, paragraph (1); when the driver of a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle, in connection with the driving of a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle, violates a provision of this Act or of an order under this Act, or a measure under a provision of this Act (but only in a case that Cabinet Office Order prescribes), commits aiding or abetting a material violation or causes an off-road death or injury (in either case, only as prescribed by Cabinet Office Order), undergoes a cognitive assessment, undergoes retesting under Article 100-2, paragraph (1), or undergoes the training set forth in Article 108-2, paragraph (1), item (ii), (x), (xiii), or (xiv); or when any other event that Cabinet Office Order prescribes occurs in connection with the driving of a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle by the driver of a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle. This having been done, the National Public Safety Commission must notify each public safety commission of the information reported to it in order to ensure propriety in their licensing-related functions.

①If a person holding a provisional license comes to fall under one of the items of Article 103, paragraph (1) (other than items (iv) and (viii)) or one of the items of paragraph (2), the public safety commission with jurisdiction over the person's domicile at the time that the person comes to fall under the item in question may revoke the provisional license, in accordance with the standards that Cabinet Order prescribes.

②On finding a person who has been notified as under Article 101-7, paragraph (2) (limited to a person holding a provisional license) to be in violation of paragraph (3) of that Article in failing to undergo the cognitive assessment or equivalent examination of which the person has been notified; on finding a person who has been notified as under paragraph (5) of that Article (limited to a person holding a provisional license) to be in violation of paragraph (6) of that Article in failing to undergo the training of which the person has been notified; on finding a person subject to an order under Article 102, paragraph (1) through (4) (limited to a person holding a provisional license) to have violated the order; or on finding a person who has been notified as under paragraph (6) of that Article (limited to a person holding a provisional license) to be in violation of paragraph (7) of that Article in failing to undergo the fitness screening of which the person has been notified, the public safety commission with jurisdiction over the person's domicile as of the day on which the period provided for in Article 101-7, paragraph (3) or (6) totals one month, as of the day that marks the deadline provided for in Article 102, paragraph (1) through (4), or as of the date of which the person has been notified as referred to in paragraph (7) of that Article may revoke the person's provisional license, in accordance with the standards that Cabinet Order prescribes; provided, however, that this does not apply if there are compelling circumstances for the person's failure to undergo the cognitive assessment or equivalent examination, undergo the training, comply with the order, or undergo the fitness screening.

①Having come to fall under one of the following items, a person who holds a license must promptly return the license (or the license found or recovered, in a case as under item (iii)) to the public safety commission with jurisdiction over the person's domicile:

②In the case where a person whose license has been revoked pursuant to Article 104-2-2, paragraph (1), (2), or (4), Article 104-2-4, paragraph (1), (2), or (4), or Article 104-4, paragraph (2) still holds a license of another type (including the case where a license is granted pursuant to paragraph (3) of that Article; the same applies in paragraph (2) of the following Article), if the person returns a license pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the public safety commission is to issue the license pertaining to the license of that other type.

③The provisions of Article 95-2, paragraphs (5) and (6) apply mutatis mutandis to the issuance of a license under the preceding paragraph.

④A person who holds a license must promptly submit the license thereof to the public safety commission with jurisdiction over the domicile thereof if that license is suspended pursuant to Article 90, paragraph (5), Article 103, paragraph (1) or (4), Article 104-2-3, paragraph (1) or (3), or Article 103, paragraph (4) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (5) of that Article.

⑤A public safety commission to which a license is submitted pursuant to the preceding paragraph, or to which a license is sent pursuant to Article 103-2, paragraph (5) or (6), must immediately return the license when, in the case where the period of suspension of the license pertaining to that license has expired or the suspension of the license pertaining to that license has been lifted, a request for its return is made by the person who submitted it.

⑥Necessary particulars regarding the procedures for an application under Article 95-2, paragraph (6) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (3) are prescribed by Cabinet Office Order.