On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:37:13 +0100, "Guus Veldhuis" <guus@dse.nl>
brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

>Hello again, a few weeks ago I asked a question about driving in Japan with 
>an international driver licence and changing it into a Japanese licence. 
>Yesterday my girlfriend phoned with the examination school and asked if this 
>was true, like that people from theh Netherlands do need to do a test when 
>they want to change it and they told her completely different things. If I 
>want to change my licence (valid until 2011) I have to do a 2 hour verbale 
>test and a 6 hours driving test and pay some money too. Anybody has 
>experience with this and who is right now? Thanks in advance, Guus

Your girlfriend made a big mistake by calling a BUSINESS instead of
the license examination center. The BUSINESS she called wants to make
money off of you. Have her call the prefectural licensing center
(operated by the police) and get the correct information.





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Michael Cash

"Clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right, Mr. Cash.
Clowns and jokers."

                                Prof. Ernest T. Bass
                                Mount Pilot College