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The Japanese Ministry of Post and Telecommunications announced a
reduction of Morse Code test requirements on May 24th, 2005. The
announced changes, effective October 1, 2005, reduce the requirements
for 1st and 2nd class licenses to 5 wpm, solid copy for two minutes.
Previously these two license classes required 12 and 9 wpm,
respectively. The code test requirement for a third class license,
previously 5 wpm, will be eliminated.

The no-code-test fourth class license remains unchanged.

73 de Jim, N2EY


Interesting that they chose not to eliminate it entirely given the change in
treaty requirements. Any info on their rationale?
Dee D. Flint, N8UZE