Pass the Japan Driving Knowledge Test for Foreign License Holders 2027

Converting a foreign driver's license in Japan and facing the knowledge test? This guide explains the rules, figures, fixed penalties and points of the Japanese traffic laws at the level the test asks for, then lets you practice until the answers come without hesitation.

Since October 2025 the knowledge test for converting a foreign license has 50 written statements, and you need 45 correct answers to pass. English is one of the languages in which the test can be taken, and the book shows you how to read each statement and avoid the usual traps. The practice statements use the same true/false idea, so you train on the rules rather than on a copy of the test.

What is inside:

• 10 short chapters you can read on a phone: the conversion route, the test format and a method for true/false statements, driving on the left and overtaking, speed and expressways, signals and signs, intersections and right of way, pedestrians, railway crossings and bicycles, stopping and parking, alcohol, phones and seat belts, and accidents, penalties and points
• 2 appendices: key numbers at a glance, and Japanese terms, check-lists and wording traps
• 300 original true/false practice statements, every one with the correct answer and a short explanation
• 2 full mock tests of 50 statements, with a pass mark of 45

Rules are current at the time of writing. Where a point could not be confirmed, the book says so and tells you to check with the prefectural police.

All statements are original. This is an independent study guide: it is not produced, endorsed or approved by any authority or test organization, and it does not contain real test questions. It does not replace the official texts.

Part of the Pass the Test series.

Method of creation: this book was written with the help of artificial intelligence tools, under the author's direction; every rule was written from its source text and reviewed and every practice statement was written for this book.