{"topic_id":"jp_animal_welfare_act_full_owner_duty","category":"jp-animal-welfare","context":"---\ntopic_id: jp_animal_welfare_act_full_owner_duty\ncategory: jp-animal-welfare\ntitle: \"Japan Animal Welfare Act — Owner/Occupier Duties (第七条)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"Act on Welfare and Management of Animals, lawid 348AC1000000105, laws.e-gov.go.jp full text, pulled 2026-07-24 via Seoul relay Playwright\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/jp-animal-welfare/animal_welfare_act_full.txt\nsource_type: statute_text\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-24\ntokens_estimated: 120\nverification: C1_substring_match\nclaims: 2\n---\n\n# Japan Animal Welfare Act — Owner/Occupier Duties (第七条)\n\nFirst-hand full-statute text (laws.e-gov.go.jp, pulled 2026-07-24 via Seoul relay Playwright). Each claim is the ORIGINAL JAPANESE sentence verbatim-substring-matched against `source_file`; English translation in parentheses.\n\n## Claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)\n\n- `動物の所有者又は占有者は、命あるものである動物の所有者又は占有者として動物の愛護及び管理に関する責任を十分に自覚して、その動物をその種類、習性等に応じて適正に飼養し、又は保管することにより、動物の健康及び安全を保持するように努めるとともに、動物が人の生命、身体若しくは財産に害を加え、生活環境の保全上の支障を生じさせ、又は人に迷惑を及ぼすことのないように努めなければならない。`  (EN: Owners/occupiers must be fully aware of their responsibility, keep animals properly per species/nature to maintain health/safety, and avoid harm to people/property/neighbors.)\n- `動物の所有者は、その所有する動物の飼養又は保管の目的等を達する上で支障を及ぼさない範囲で、できる限り、当該動物がその命を終えるまで適切に飼養すること（以下「終生飼養」という。）に努めなければならない。`  (EN: Owners must, so far as not hindering the purpose of keeping, endeavour to keep the animal appropriately for its whole life (\"lifetime keeping\").)\n\nSource: `pdf-raw/jp-animal-welfare/animal_welfare_act_full.txt` — full text of the Act (laws.e-gov.go.jp), pulled 2026-07-24 via Seoul relay Playwright.\n","sources":[],"tokens_estimated":120,"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."}