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The or , officially , is a green and yellow V-shaped symbol that new drivers in
What are all these mysterious Japanese car stickers?
WHAT ARE THOSE STICKERS ON JAPANESE CARS?
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shoshinsha Mark Law of Japan Road transport in Japan Traffic law
The or , officially , is a green and yellow V-shaped symbol that new drivers in Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
must display at the designated places at the front and the rear of their cars for one year after they obtain a standard driver's license
A driver's license is a legal authorization, or the official document confirming such an authorization, for a specific individual to operate one or more types of motorized vehicles—such as motorcycles, cars, trucks, or buses—on a public ...
. Drivers who consider themselves beginners may continue to display the sign, even after the period of a year. Like the orange and yellow "''fukushi'' mark" or " ''kōreisha'' mark" that denotes elderly drivers, the shoshinsha mark is designed to warn other drivers that the marked driver is not very skilled, either due to inexperience or old age.
In Japan the shoshinsha mark is also used beyond the driving context to indicate beginner status. In Tochigi, for example, new mothers are issued a card with the mark on it to indicate their experience level to health and child care support staff. New employees of companies may also have the mark on their name badges until they become more experienced. In video games, it is associated with tutorials and new players. In the anime ''Sgt. Frog
''Sgt. Frog'', known in Japan as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mine Yoshizaki. It was launched in ''Monthly Shōnen Ace'' in April 1999. The story follows the attempts of a platoon of frog-like alien invaders to c ...
'', the character Tamama has a mirrored shoshinsha mark on his hat and stomach.
The mark is represented in Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology Technical standard, standard for the consistent character encoding, encoding, representation, and handling of Character (computing), text expre ...
as U+1F530 (🔰), as part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs is a Unicode block containing meteorological and astronomical symbols, emoji characters largely for compatibility with Japanese telephone carriers' implementations of Shift JIS, and characters originally from ...
block.
See also
*Kōreisha mark
The is a statutory sign that is set up in the Road Traffic Law of Japan to indicate "aged person at the wheel". Its official name is .
The law decrees that when a person who is aged 70 and over drives a car and if their old age could affect th ...
(The mark for the elderly drivers)
* L-plate
An L-plate is a square plate bearing a sans-serif letter L, for ''learner'', which must be affixed to the front and/or back of a vehicle in many countries if its driver is a learner under instruction, or a motorcycle rider with provisional entit ...
s and P-plates
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What are all these mysterious Japanese car stickers?
WHAT ARE THOSE STICKERS ON JAPANESE CARS?
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shoshinsha Mark Law of Japan Road transport in Japan Traffic law