Cars - Y Plate responsibilities and info

If you are an US military member and drive a Y-plate car in this island, you are required to follow some rules, such as buying both Japanese compulsory Insurance(JCI) and American Insurance, getting inspection every two years (most cars), and paying road tax every year.
And road tax season is comming this year. Road tax amount is determined by the number of your vehicle plate. Payment must be made by end of May in Japanese yen only. You can pay at some places on designated date and time on bases. Also, some insurance agency offices both on and off base offer a service to take care of your road tax. If you pay through an insurance agency, they pay your road tax at LTO and bring back your road tax receipt. You take the receipt to Vehicle Registration Office on Camp Foster near commissary gate, drive on Lane 2, they give you a Road Tax sticker. Without the sticker after road tax season ends, your car might be impounded at gate. So be careful. As for light vehicles or motorcycles, you are required to pay your road tax at a city hall near your place on your own.

To pay your road tax, you need these paper listed below.
★Japanese vehicle title
★Military vehicle registration
★2012 Road Tax receipt
★American insurance
★Japanese Compulsory Insurance (JCI)

●Road Tax amount.
･40/400 and 40/400, 50/500 77/78 plates: 7,500 yen
･33/300 plates (4.5 liter engines and below): 19,000 yen
･33/300 plates (4.6 liter engines and above): 22,000 yen
･11/100, 88/800 plates: 32,000 yen

-Mini-cars and motorcycles (Please pay at city halls)
･Mini-cars: 3,000 yen
･Motorcycles up to 125cc: 500 yen
･Motorcycles 126cc and above: 1,000 yen

The Road Tax collection schedule on bases is shown on this website →http://bit.ly/12htrz1