Ministry of Defense (Japan)
防衛省 (Bōei-shō)
Japan's defence ministry, which in 2020 ordered its forces to record and report unidentified aerial objects — the newest official UAP record class in this register.
No scorecard yet
Aletheca has not filed with this body, so there is nothing to measure. A zero here would read as “releases nothing” rather than “never asked”, which is why the row is absent instead of empty. Filing outside the United States is not yet supported, so for now this record is for reading and routing.
How it takes requests
- 01portale-Gov electronic disclosure requestunconfirmed
https://www.e-gov.go.jp
- 02mailPostal mailunconfirmed
Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Defense, 5-1 Honmura-cho, Ichigaya, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8801
Routes marked verified were fetched and confirmed against the body’s own official pages; those marked unconfirmed are well documented but have not been checked here, and none has been proven by a delivered letter. Aletheca cannot yet originate a request outside the United States — this record exists so a request about these holdings can be routed to the right door.
What it holds
- Post-2020 SDF reporting on unidentified aerial objects, ordered by the Defense Minister in September 2020
- Air Self-Defense Force scramble and radar incident records
- Correspondence on UAP information-sharing with the United States
Record classes this kind of body normally keeps. Useful for drafting a request a records officer can act on without guessing — a request describing records the agency does not hold is refused as no-records, which costs a filing fee and teaches nobody anything.
Filing tips
- Name the September 2020 ministerial instruction on unidentified aerial objects — it created the record class worth asking for.
- Requests carry a ¥300 fee and answers issue in Japanese; budget for translation.