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Certified Japanese driver licence translation for Oran Park residents. Accepted by RMS, VicRoads and all Australian state transport authorities.
Upload your Japanese driver licence for a fast quote. Our certified translators provide officially accepted translations for licence conversion and vehicle rental.
If you hold a Japanese driver licence and live in or are visiting Oran Park, you may need a certified translation to drive legally in Australia. The requirements depend on your visa type.
On a student, working holiday or tourist visa, you can generally drive on your overseas licence with a certified English translation. State-specific rules:
Permanent residents must convert their overseas licence to an Australian licence within 3-6 months (varies by state). A NAATI-certified translation is required for the conversion process.
Most Australian car rental companies require an English translation of your licence. A certified Japanese licence translation from Mighty Translation is accepted by all major rental companies.
Japanese is an East Asian language spoken by about 128 million people, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language. It is a member of the Japonic (or Japanese-Ryukyuan) language family, and its relation to other languages, such as Korean, is debated. Japonic languages have been grouped with other language families such as Ainu, Austroasiatic, and the now-discredited Altaic, but none of these proposals has gained widespread acceptance.
Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial texts did not appear until the 8th century. During the Heian period (794-1185), Chinese had considerable influence on the vocabulary and phonology of Old Japanese. Late Middle Japanese (1185-1600) included changes in features that brought it closer to the modern language, and the first appearance of European loanwords. The standard dialect moved from the Kansai region to the Edo (modern Tokyo) region in the Early Modern Japanese period (early 17th century-mid-19th century). Following the end of Japan's self-imposed isolation in 1853, the flow of loanwords from European languages increased significantly. English loanwords, in particular, have become frequent, and Japanese words from English roots have proliferated.
Japanese has no clear genealogical relationship with Chinese, although it makes prevalent use of Chinese characters, or kanji, in its writing system, and a large portion of its vocabulary is borrowed from Chinese. Along with kanji, the Japanese writing system primarily uses two syllabic (or moraic) scripts, hiragana and katakana. Latin script is used in a limited fashion, such as for imported acronyms, and the numeral system uses mostly Arabic numerals alongside traditional Chinese numerals.