Thank you guys for the info, that helps significantly.
@Lovetheworld: Our route is not well-planned but we already left Russia to cross through Mongolia and now we're a few weeks in China. So the Vladivostok ferry is not an option anymore. We are still able to choose the Chinese exit border/port so we need to decide soon whether to take the risk to get into Japan or not.
We miss Japan and would love to be back. It's hard for me to fathom that first-world countries like Germany and Japan have signed different conventions on road traffic thus preventing this kind of cross-border traffic.
I'll keep you updated whether we risk it.
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If a temporarily imported vehicle is registered in a country that is not a party to the aforementioned treaty (as it were, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco Slovenia), it must be inspected and registered in Japan on arrival, even if imported under cover of CPD.
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The first guy at JAF we just phoned did not know how to "Inspect & Register" a German-licenced vehicle in Japan.
Does one of you - by any chance - has experience with this procedure (time & cost)? We keep trying at JAF and MLIT in the meantime. Thanks a lot.
Cheers
Henning
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