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.

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