What it takes to put a car in your own name here: the 車庫証明 parking certificate your local police station issues before you can register anything, the 名義変更 transfer at the 運輸支局, 自賠責 compulsory insurance against the optional cover, and the 車検 roadworthiness inspection that decides what an older car really costs.
This page does not yet list the offices, forms, costs or step-by-step procedures for it. The Immigration Services Agency publishes the Daily Life Support Portal, which covers this ground officially, free, in 19 languages, and is written by the agency that administers the procedures.
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