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Demerit points

The points tables live in the Cabinet Order. The Road Traffic Act itself has none.

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Vocabulary

"Ihanten" is not the statute's word

The word Japanese drivers search for is 違反点数 (ihanten). It appears nowhere in the statutory text. What the Cabinet Order's Appended Table 2 defines is 基礎点数 (base points) and 付加点数 (additional points) — and the Road Traffic Act itself carries no points table at all.

違反点数 ihanten — the word people use

This site uses both, and never presents the popular word as if it were statutory.

基礎点数 / 付加点数 — the words the Cabinet Order uses

11 rows.

道路交通法施行令 別表第二 一

Base points

道路交通法施行令 別表第二 一

  • Conduct

    無免許運転、酒気帯び運転（〇・二五以上）、
    Show the remaining conduct

    過労運転等、妨害運転（交通の危険のおそれ）又は共同危険行為等禁止違反

    Base points (severity)
    25 points · Highest

  • Conduct

    酒気帯び（〇・二五未満）速度超過（五十以上）等
    Base points (severity)
    19 points · Highest

  • Conduct

    酒気帯び（〇・二五未満）速度超過（三十（高速四十）以上五十未満）等
    Base points (severity)
    16 points · Heavy

  • Conduct

    酒気帯び（〇・二五未満）速度超過（二十五以上三十（高速四十）未満）等
    Base points (severity)
    15 points · Heavy

  • Conduct

    酒気帯び（〇・二五未満）速度超過（二十五未満）等
    Base points (severity)
    14 points · Heavy

  • Conduct

    酒気帯び運転（〇・二五未満）
    Base points (severity)
    13 points · Heavy

  • Conduct

    大型自動車等無資格運転、仮免許運転違反又は速度超過（五十以上）
    Base points (severity)
    12 points · Heavy

  • Conduct

    速度超過（三十（高速四十）以上五十未満）、積載物重量制限超過（大型等十割以上）、
    Show the remaining conduct

    携帯電話使用等（交通の危険）、無車検運行又は無保険運行

    Base points (severity)
    6 points · Moderate

  • Conduct

    速度超過（二十五以上三十（高速四十）未満）、放置駐車違反（駐停車禁止場所等）、
    Show the remaining conduct

    積載物重量制限超過（大型等五割以上十割未満）、積載物重量制限超過（普通等十割以上）、携帯電話使用等（保持）又は保管場所法違反（道路使用）

    Base points (severity)
    3 points · Light

  • Conduct

    警察官現場指示違反、警察官通行禁止制限違反、
    Show the remaining conduct

    信号無視、通行禁止違反、歩行者用道路徐行違反、通行区分違反、歩行者等側方安全通過義務違反、速度超過（二十以上二十五未満）、急ブレーキ禁止違反、法定横断等禁止違反、高速自動車国道等車間距離不保持、追越し違反、路面電車後方不停止、踏切不停止等、遮断踏切立入り、優先道路通行車妨害等、交差点安全進行義務違反、環状交差点通行車妨害等、環状交差点安全進行義務違反、横断歩行者等妨害等、徐行場所違反、指定場所一時不停止等、駐停車違反（駐停車禁止場所等）、放置駐車違反（駐車禁止場所等）、積載物重量制限超過（大型等五割未満）、積載物重量制限超過（普通等五割以上十割未満）、自動車等整備不良（制動装置等）、作動状態記録装置不備、安全運転義務違反、幼児等通行妨害、安全地帯徐行違反、騒音運転等、消音器不備、大型自動二輪車等乗車方法違反、自動運行装置使用条件違反、高速自動車国道等措置命令違反、本線車道横断等禁止違反、高速自動車国道等運転者遵守事項違反、免許条件違反、番号標表示義務違反又は保管場所法違反（長時間駐車）

    Base points (severity)
    2 points · Light

  • Conduct

    混雑緩和措置命令違反、通行許可条件違反、
    Show the remaining conduct

    通行帯違反、路線バス等優先通行帯違反、軌道敷内違反、速度超過（二十未満）、道路外出右左折方法違反、道路外出右左折合図車妨害、指定横断等禁止違反、車間距離不保持、進路変更禁止違反、追い付かれた車両の義務違反、乗合自動車発進妨害、割込み等、自動車等交差点右左折方法違反、交差点右左折等合図車妨害、指定通行区分違反、環状交差点左折等方法違反、交差点優先車妨害、緊急車妨害等、駐停車違反（駐車禁止場所等）、交差点等進入禁止違反、無灯火、減光等義務違反、合図不履行、合図制限違反、警音器吹鳴義務違反、乗車積載方法違反、定員外乗車、積載物重量制限超過（普通等五割未満）、積載物大きさ制限超過、積載方法制限超過、制限外許可条件違反、牽けん引違反、原付等牽けん引違反、自動車等整備不良（尾灯等）、転落等防止措置義務違反、転落積載物等危険防止措置義務違反、安全不確認ドア開放等、停止措置義務違反、初心運転者等保護義務違反、座席ベルト装着義務違反、幼児用補助装置使用義務違反、乗車用ヘルメット着用義務違反、初心運転者標識表示義務違反、聴覚障害者標識表示義務違反、最低速度違反、本線車道通行車妨害、本線車道緊急車妨害、本線車道出入方法違反、牽けん引自動車本線車道通行帯違反、故障車両表示義務違反又は仮免許練習標識表示義務違反

    Base points (severity)
    1 point · Light
In force
道路交通法施行令, consolidation in force 2026-05-21 — 別表第二 (点数)
Source
道路交通法施行令 別表第二 一
status
transcribed, not signed off

Specific violations

道路交通法施行令 別表第二 二

  • Conduct

    運転殺人等又は危険運転致死等
    Base points (severity)
    62 points · Highest

  • Conduct

    運転傷害等（治療期間三月以上又は後遺障害）又は危険運転致傷等（治療期間三月以上又は後遺障害）
    Base points (severity)
    55 points · Highest

  • Conduct

    運転傷害等（治療期間三十日以上）又は危険運転致傷等（治療期間三十日以上）
    Base points (severity)
    51 points · Highest

  • Conduct

    運転傷害等（治療期間十五日以上）又は危険運転致傷等（治療期間十五日以上）
    Base points (severity)
    48 points · Highest

  • Conduct

    運転傷害等（治療期間十五日未満又は建造物損壊）又は危険運転致傷等（治療期間十五日未満）
    Base points (severity)
    45 points · Heavy

  • Conduct

    酒酔い運転、麻薬等運転、妨害運転（著しい交通の危険）又は救護義務違反
    Base points (severity)
    35 points · Heavy
In force
道路交通法施行令, consolidation in force 2026-05-21 — 別表第二 (点数)
Source
道路交通法施行令 別表第二 二
status
transcribed, not signed off

Additional points

道路交通法施行令 別表第二 三

  • Conduct

    人の死亡に係る交通事故
    Solely at fault
    20 points
    Other cases
    13 points

  • Conduct

    人の傷害に係る交通事故（他人を傷つけたものに限る。以下この表において「傷害事故」という。）のうち、当該傷害事故に係る負傷者の負傷の治療に要する期間（当該負傷者の数が二人以上である場合にあつては、これらの者のうち最も負傷の程度が重い者の負傷の治療に要する期間とする。以下この表において「治療期間」という。）が三月以上であるもの又は後遺障害（当該負傷者の負傷が治つたとき（その症状が固定したときを含む。）における身体の障害で国家公安委員会規則で定める程度のものをいう。以下この表において同じ。）が存するもの
    Solely at fault
    13 points
    Other cases
    9 points

  • Conduct

    傷害事故のうち、治療期間が三十日以上三月未満であるもの（後遺障害が存するものを除く。）
    Solely at fault
    9 points
    Other cases
    6 points

  • Conduct

    傷害事故のうち、治療期間が十五日以上三十日未満であるもの（後遺障害が存するものを除く。）
    Solely at fault
    6 points
    Other cases
    4 points

  • Conduct

    傷害事故のうち治療期間が十五日未満であるもの（後遺障害が存するものを除く。）又は建造物の損壊に係る交通事故
    Solely at fault
    3 points
    Other cases
    2 points
In force
道路交通法施行令, consolidation in force 2026-05-21 — 別表第二 (点数)
Source
道路交通法施行令 別表第二 三
status
transcribed, not signed off

max 25 points

Where the register lives

The Act delegates points entirely to the Cabinet Order

The Road Traffic Act does not contain a points table. It does not contain the word for points at all. Everything about the demerit-points register lives in the Cabinet Order made under it.

That is worth stating positively rather than as a curiosity, because it has a practical consequence for anyone trying to follow the law themselves: reading the Act front to back tells you nothing about points. The instrument you need is the Order, and specifically its own appended table.

It also means that a change to the points system can happen without the Act being touched. Someone watching only the Act for amendments would not see it.

Three tables

The points schedule is three tables, not one

What this page renders is three separate sub-tables of the same appended table, and they do different jobs.

The general base-points table (11 rows) prices ordinary violations. The severe and specific table (6 rows) prices a smaller set of more serious conduct. The accident-additional table (5 rows) is different in kind again: it has two columns, because what is added depends on whether the violator was solely at fault.

Only the first of those three is what the speed calculator on this site looks up. The other two are shown because they are sourced content that belongs to the same register, and dropping them would present a partial register as a whole one.

A known boundary

The base-points ladder is not the whole points picture

The same table also carries rows that combine a violation with alcohol, and those rows price higher than the equivalent row for the violation alone. They were read but are not modelled by this site's calculator.

This site says so rather than presenting the pure ladder as complete. If alcohol was involved in a stop, the row that applies may not be the row the speed calculator here shows — and this site has no verified threshold table to classify a reading, so it does not attempt one.

What points do

This page does not predict a suspension

Points accumulate, and accumulated points determine licence dispositions — suspension and revocation. That mechanism needs two things: a table mapping accumulated points to disposition bands, and the Act's own provisions on what each band actually means in length and kind.

The first was read. The second was not. Building a "will I lose my licence" answer from only half of that would produce a confident output resting on a table this site has not consulted, so there is no such calculator here and no prediction anywhere on this site.

What this page gives is the points themselves, from the tables that state them. What those points eventually mean for a particular licence is a question for the authority that holds the record.

What this system does not cover

What this site does not answer, and why

These are content, not gaps. Each is a bounded statement that a NAMED instrument does not contain something — never a claim that "the law is silent".

Death and injury by driving is a different Act

The Act on Punishment of Acts Causing Death or Injury by Driving was amended by the same Act that amended the Road Traffic Act (Act No. 52 of 2026), but its offences and penalties are its own. This site has not transcribed them. A case involving death or injury is outside this calculator.

  • 自動車運転死傷行為処罰法, in force 2026-07-21
The payload's own note, verbatim (an instrument name in 【 】 is this site's)

自動車運転死傷行為処罰法 (death/injury-by-driving offences) is vendored in the corpus and was amended by the SAME act that amended 道路交通法 on 2026-07-21 (令和八年法律第五十二号) — but its own offence/penalty structure is a SEPARATE instrument and is not transcribed into this payload.

The summary-trial procedure is a different Act

The Summary Trial Procedure Act for traffic cases governs HOW a minor traffic case is disposed of. It is procedural and carries no amount of its own, so it is not modelled here. Its ceiling and this offence's own ceiling are two different figures.

  • 交通事件即決裁判手続法, in force 2026-05-21
The payload's own note, verbatim (an instrument name in 【 】 is this site's)

交通事件即決裁判手続法 (the summary-trial PROCEDURE for minor traffic offences) is vendored — procedural, carries no rate figure of its own, and is not modelled here.

Minimum speeds are not transcribed

【道路交通法施行令】Minimum speeds are set by Cabinet Order Art. 27. Arts. 11 and 12 only point at it ("the next Article" / "the preceding Article"); the figure itself is not within what this site transcribed. It was read, and not taken.

  • 道路交通法施行令 (Cabinet Order No. 270 of 1960), 第二十七条 — consolidation in force 2026-05-21
The payload's own note, verbatim (an instrument name in 【 】 is this site's)

最低速度 (minimum speed, expressway mainline — 第二十七条 and neighbours, referenced in passing by 第十一条/第十二条's own cross-references) is a separate figure this fixture did not extract.

Not every Chapter 8 article is covered

【道路交通法】Chapter 8 of the Road Traffic Act (Arts. 117–122) holds more articles than the ones this site joined to the hansokukin ceilings. Only the articles that Appended Table 2's own rows name are transcribed. Arts. 117 and 122, and Arts. 118-2 and 118-3, are referenced by no ceiling row and are not transcribed.

  • 道路交通法 (Act No. 105 of 1960), 第八章 罰則（第百十七条―第百二十二条） — consolidation in force 2026-07-21
The payload's own note, verbatim (an instrument name in 【 】 is this site's)

Chapter 8 (第百十七条～第百二十二条) has MORE articles than the eight this fixture joined to jpFinesCeiling. Only the ones 【道路交通法】別表第二's own rows reference by locator are transcribed (第百十八条, 第百十八条の二/三 excluded, 第百十九条, 第百十九条の二の四, 第百十九条の三, 第百二十条, 第百二十一条); 第百十七条 and 第百二十二条 (and 第百十八条の二/三) are not referenced by any 反則金 ceiling row and are not transcribed here.

For a juvenile, the family court sets the amount

【道路交通法】Under Road Traffic Act Art. 130-2(1), second sentence, where a case reaches a family-court hearing the amount is set by that court within the Act's own Appended Table 2 ceiling. There is no fixed schedule figure to read off, so this site states none.

  • 道路交通法 (Act No. 105 of 1960), 第百三十条の二第一項後段 — consolidation in force 2026-07-21
The payload's own note, verbatim (an instrument name in 【 】 is this site's)

第百三十条の二第一項後段: when a juvenile's case reaches a family-court hearing, the court MAY order 反則金 payment on its own schedule, and the AMOUNT is then set by the family court itself — "その反則金の額は、第百二十五条第三項の規定にかかわらず、【道路交通法】別表第二に定める金額の範囲内において家庭裁判所が定める額とする" — within 【道路交通法】別表第二's ceiling, but not read off any fixed schedule figure this fixture can transcribe as a number.

The mitigated floor is not stated

Penal Code Art. 15 carries a proviso: on statutory mitigation grounds a court CAN sentence below the floor. This site states only the un-mitigated floor and does not model when mitigation applies.

  • Penal Code, Art. 15, proviso

Expressway mainline default speeds are out of scope

The default speed on an expressway mainline is set by Cabinet Order Art. 27, which this site has not transcribed. The general-road figure is never reused for it. On an expressway, enter the posted limit.

  • Cabinet Order, Art. 27

No alcohol or BAC classification

This site's calculators do not classify alcohol readings. There is no verified threshold table here to drive one, and producing a number without it would be the opposite of accuracy.

  • Not transcribed into this site's payload

No "will I lose my licence" prediction

Suspension and revocation from accumulated points are set by the Cabinet Order's Appended Table 3 together with Road Traffic Act Art. 103. Both were read; neither is modelled. There is no such calculator here.

  • Cabinet Order, Appended Table 3 / Road Traffic Act, Art. 103

No foreign-licence or visitor-specific rules

Nothing in the material this site read carries rules specific to foreign licences or cross-border drivers. This English bundle is a translation of the same claims and makes no additional ones.

  • Not transcribed into this site's payload

Where to physically pay is not stated here

What the statutes give is the deadline and the no-instalments rule. Counters, banks and opening hours are not sourced, so they are not written. Follow the instructions printed on your own notice.

  • Road Traffic Act Arts. 128/129; Cabinet Order Art. 51(4)

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