How far can you joke around? The challenge of official identification is incredible!

I’m sure it’s true worldwide, but photos for official identification cards cannot be used if they do not resemble the person they are supposed to be. For example, if you wear too much make-up, you will be asked to remove it, and your clothes and wig will also be problematic.

These photos though. They are incredible as official driver’s license photos! In the first photo, the man has a chonmage. The license center staff can’t say anything about it because he made the style with his hair and not a wig. That’s not overdoing it perhaps, but for his license renewal, he took the second picture. He no longer looks like an earthling at this point.

Naturally, he was told to remove it for the license renewal photo, but this is a tattoo that can’t be removed. He was asked again and again if it really couldn’t be removed, and he said that it couldn’t be. The license officer couldn’t say anything, and the photo was taken as it was.

It would have been impossible to identify him if he had been told to wear skin-coloured make-up, wouldn’t it?

He has this driver’s license and he goes about his daily life looking like this. Would you go to this extreme for a license photo? Japanese driver’s licenses are renewed every three to five years, so there is a lot of anticipation for his next photo!

ABE KENGO

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