"Ryan Ginstrom" <ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c6pc8b$elftd$1@ID-101276.news.uni-berlin.de...

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So the rumor is true then. Gaijin can no longer take their (for example)
U.S. drivers license and do a simple kakikae anymore as I did about 12 years
ago.

I'll be moving back to Japan in about 6 months and I have a Japanese drivers
license that expired about 5 or 6 years ago after I returned to the U.S. I
have heard that it is possible to go to the license office with your old
expired license and, if you plead with them enough (and bow deeply enough)
you can get them to renew it. Anyone have any experience with this? I really
want to avoid having to go through this driving test nonsense considering I
already have about a 7 year history of being a licensed driver in Japan.

Jeff