Tokyo micro parking lots curb illegal parking

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1. 1 Jan 1962Background

   Japan's 1962 garage certificate law requires proof of a parking space

   In 1962 Japan passed a law requiring car buyers in designated urban areas to prove they had an off-street parking space before registering a vehicle.

2. 1 Jun 2006Background

   Japan introduces private parking monitors under revised Road Traffic Act

   From June 2006, Japan's revised Road Traffic Act let private-sector monitors mark illegally parked cars, making street parking enforcement far stricter.

3. 

   28 Oct

   Tokyo's backstreets have almost no illegal parking. Here's why it works

   In Akihabara and Kanda, packed with shops and bars, the narrow streets had no illegally parked cars. Japan's road death rate is 42% of South Korea's.