A public safety commission must report the information that Cabinet Office Order prescribes to the National Public Safety Commission when notifying a person as under the second sentence of Article 107-4, paragraph (1); when prohibiting a person from driving a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle pursuant to paragraph (1) or (2) of the preceding Article or Article 103, paragraph (4), as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (9) of the preceding Article or shortening the period pursuant to Article 103, paragraph (10), as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (3) of the preceding Article; or if the chief of a police station prohibits a person from driving a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle pursuant to Article 103-2, paragraph (1), as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (10) of the preceding Article. In such a case, 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.

①A person who has a license (other than an SS-MVL, MBL, or provisional license) (other than a person whose license is under a suspension pursuant to Article 90, paragraph (5), Article 103, paragraph (1) or (4), Article 103-2, paragraph (1), Article 104-2-3, paragraph (1) or (3), or Article 103, paragraph (4) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 104-2-3, paragraph (5)) may be issued a driver's license as referred to in Article 24, paragraph (1) of the Convention, for motor vehicles and motorized bicycles as prescribed in Annex 10 to the Convention that are in keeping with the motor vehicles and motorized bicycles that the license permits the person to drive and in accordance with the categories that Cabinet Office Order prescribes, this driver's license being issued by a public safety commission (hereinafter referred to as a "Foreign Driving Permit").

②A person seeking a Foreign Driving Permit must submit an application for issuance in the format that Cabinet Office Order prescribes, together with a document evidencing that the person will visit a foreign country, to the public safety commission having jurisdiction over the person's domicile.

③Upon the filing of an application as referred to in the preceding paragraph, a public safety commission is to specify the types of motor vehicles and motorized bicycles, that the person may drive and issue a Foreign Driving Permit inscribed with an indication of these.

④Beyond what is prescribed in the preceding three paragraphs, Cabinet Office Order provides for the format of Foreign International Driving Permits and other necessary information regarding their issuance.

A Foreign Driving Permit is valid for a period of one year, beginning on the date of issuance.

①A Foreign Driving Permit ceases to be valid if the license on which it is based ceases to be valid or is revoked.

②If the license on which a Foreign Driving Permit is based is suspended, the permit is suspended during the period of suspension of the license.

①A person with a Foreign Driving Permit must promptly return it to the public safety commission having jurisdiction over the person's domicile once it expires or if it ceases to be valid (or once the person returns to Japan, if that person is in a region outside Japan when the permit expires or ceases to be valid).

②A person with a Foreign Driving Permit must promptly submit it to the public safety commission having jurisdiction over the person's domicile if it is suspended (or once the person returns to Japan, if that person is in a region outside Japan when it is suspended and returns to Japan during the period of suspension period).

③A public safety commission to which a Foreign Driving Permit is submitted pursuant to the preceding paragraph must immediately return it at the request of the person submitting it once the period of suspension expires.

①A public safety commission, pursuant to Cabinet Order, may ask a corporation that Cabinet Office Order prescribes to handle all or part of the administrative processes involved in licensing as prescribed in this Chapter (other than administrative processes involved in denying and withholding licenses, adding and changing license conditions, deciding the results of driver's license tests and fitness screenings, revoking and suspending licenses, and other processes that Cabinet Order prescribes; referred to as "licensing processes" in the following paragraph).

②It is prohibited for a current or former officer or employee of a corporation that has been asked to handle licensing processes pursuant to the preceding paragraph to divulge confidential information learned in connection with the licensing processes that it handles.