{"topic_id":"exotic_pet_japan_wildlife_keeping","category":"exotic-pet-japan","context":"---\ntopic_id: exotic_pet_japan_wildlife_keeping\ncategory: exotic-pet-japan\ntitle: \"Japan Wildlife Protection & Hunting Act (Law No. 88 of 2002) Art. 19-20 — keeping permit-captured wildlife requires prefectural registration; transfer rules (鳥獣保護法 飼養の登録)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"e-Gov 法令検索 API v1 (laws.e-gov.go.jp) 官方全文 XML 落盘提取：鳥獣の保護及び管理並びに狩猟の適正化に関する法律 (Law No. 88 of 2002)\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/jp-egov/wildlife_protection_act_2002_law88.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-29\ntokens_estimated: 475\nverified: true\nverification: c1_substring\nsource_document: \"鳥獣の保護及び管理並びに狩猟の適正化に関する法律 (Act on Protection and Management of Birds and Mammals and Hunting) — 平成十四年法律第八十八号\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"e-Gov 法令検索 (Government of Japan legal database, laws.e-gov.go.jp)\"\n  title: \"鳥獣の保護及び管理並びに狩猟の適正化に関する法律 第十九条・第二十条\"\n  url: \"https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/414AC0000000088\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-07-29\"\n  ref: \"平成十四年法律第八十八号\"\n  doc_type: \"official text extract\"\n  needs_review: false\n---\n\n# Japan Wildlife Protection & Hunting Act (Law No. 88 of 2002) Art. 19-20 — keeping permit-captured wildlife requires prefectural registration; transfer rules (鳥獣保護法 飼養の登録)\n\nVerbatim first-hand articles from the Act on Protection and Management of Birds and Mammals and Hunting (鳥獣保護法, Law No. 88 of 2002), retrieved from the official e-Gov legal database API. Japanese original is the C1-verified text (each clause a byte-substring of the saved source file); an English gloss follows each clause. Relevance to exotic pets: a person who keeps a wild bird/mammal captured under an Art. 9(1) permit must register with the prefectural governor (Art. 19), registration is valid for one year, and registered animals may only be transferred together with their registration card (Art. 20).\n\n## Verbatim C1 claims (each a byte-substring of the source file)\n\n1. 日文原文：第十九条 第九条第一項の規定による許可を受けて捕獲をした鳥獣のうち、対象狩猟鳥獣以外の鳥獣（同項の規定により許可を受けて採取をした鳥類の卵からふ化させたものを含む。第二十二条第一項及び第八十四条第一項第七号において同じ。）を飼養しようとする者は、その者の住所地を管轄する都道府県知事の登録を受けなければならない。\n   EN (Art. 19(1)): A person who intends to keep a bird or mammal (other than game species) captured with a permit under Article 9(1) — including birds hatched from eggs taken under such permit — must be registered by the prefectural governor having jurisdiction over their address.\n2. 日文原文：４ 登録の有効期間は、登録の日から一年とする。\n   EN (Art. 19(4)): Registration is valid for one year from the date of registration.\n3. 日文原文：第二十条 登録鳥獣の譲渡し若しくは譲受け又は引渡し若しくは引受け（以下この節において「譲渡し等」という。）は、当該登録鳥獣に係る登録票とともにしなければならない。\n   EN (Art. 20(1)): Transfer or handover of a registered bird/mammal must be made together with its registration card.\n4. 日文原文：２ 登録票は、その登録票に係る登録鳥獣とともにする場合を除いては、譲渡し等をしてはならない。\n   EN (Art. 20(2)): A registration card must not be transferred separately from the registered animal it belongs to.\n\nRelated: `exotic_pet_japan_invasive_alien_species_act`, `jp_animal_welfare_act_full_specific_animals`.\n","sources":["Ministry of the Environment, Japan — 鳥獣の保護及び管理並びに狩猟の適正化に関する法律 第十九条・第二十条 (retrieved 2026-07-29)"],"source":{"authority":"Ministry of the Environment, Japan","title":"鳥獣の保護及び管理並びに狩猟の適正化に関する法律 第十九条・第二十条","url":"https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/414AC0000000088","retrieved":"2026-07-29","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"鳥獣の保護及び管理並びに狩猟の適正化に関する法律 (Act on Protection and Management of Birds and Mammals and Hunting) — 平成十四年法律第八十八号","verification_file":"pdf-raw/jp-egov/wildlife_protection_act_2002_law88.txt"},"source_document":"鳥獣の保護及び管理並びに狩猟の適正化に関する法律 (Act on Protection and Management of Birds and Mammals and Hunting) — 平成十四年法律第八十八号","source_file":"pdf-raw/jp-egov/wildlife_protection_act_2002_law88.txt","tokens_estimated":475,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}