Gaimen50-question practice tests in the real exam formatYou do not need to make passengers in the back seats wear seat belts.
Answer: ✕ False
Explanation
The driver must make passengers wear seat belts in the back seats too, not only in the front passenger seat. Except in unavoidable cases such as illness, seat belts are required in all seats.
More questions on “Driver duties”
- When carrying a child under 6 years old in a standard motor vehicle (regular car), you must use a child seat in principle.
- When carrying a child under 6 years old in a car, you must use a child seat in every case, without exception.
- While driving, you may use a mobile phone with a hands-free device, as long as you do not hold the phone in your hand to talk.
- Holding and operating a mobile phone while stopped at a red light counts as use while driving, so it is a violation.
- Staring at a car navigation screen while driving is prohibited, just like using a mobile phone.
- If you leave your driver's license at home and drive, it counts as unlicensed driving.
Questions and explanations are written against Japan’s Road Traffic Act and the National Police Agency’s Rules of the Road. These are not official exam questions.