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  "register": {
    "slug": "jp-mod",
    "name": "Ministry of Defense (Japan)",
    "local_name": "防衛省 (Bōei-shō)",
    "abbr": "MOD",
    "jurisdiction": "foreign",
    "state": null,
    "state_name": null,
    "country": "Japan",
    "country_code": "JP",
    "category": "defense",
    "agency_type": "ministry",
    "parent": null,
    "parent_name": null,
    "url": "https://aletheca.com/agencies/jp-mod",
    "website": "https://www.mod.go.jp",
    "reading_room": null,
    "subject_to_foia": true,
    "law": {
      "id": "jp-joho-kokai",
      "citation": "Act No. 42 of 1999",
      "statutory_days": 30,
      "business_days": false,
      "appeal_deadline_days": 90
    },
    "intake": [
      {
        "channel": "portal",
        "detail": "https://www.e-gov.go.jp",
        "label": "e-Gov electronic disclosure request",
        "verified": false,
        "verification": "unverified",
        "verification_source": null,
        "last_checked": null,
        "automatable": false,
        "preferred": false,
        "reliability": null,
        "instructions": null
      },
      {
        "channel": "mail",
        "detail": "Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Defense, 5-1 Honmura-cho, Ichigaya, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8801",
        "label": "Postal mail",
        "verified": false,
        "verification": "unverified",
        "verification_source": null,
        "last_checked": null,
        "automatable": false,
        "preferred": false,
        "reliability": null,
        "instructions": null
      }
    ],
    "submission_readiness": null,
    "holdings": [
      "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"
    ],
    "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."
    ],
    "tracking": "Disclosure request number issued by the ministry's disclosure office.",
    "confidence": "high",
    "source": "Hand-compiled international layer. Bodies and statutes are real; contact routes are inferred unless marked verified, and none has yet been proven by a delivered letter."
  },
  "scorecard": null,
  "components": [],
  "requests": []
}