Japan Animal Welfare Act — Dog/Cat Take-back by Prefectures (第三十五条)
First-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.
Claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)
都道府県等（都道府県及び指定都市、地方自治法第二百五十二条の二十二第一項の中核市（以下「中核市」という。）その他政令で定める市（特別区を含む。以下同じ。）をいう。以下同じ。）は、犬又は猫の引取りをその所有者から求められたときは、これを引き取らなければならない。(EN: Prefectures/etc. must take in a dog or cat when its owner requests take-back.)
Source: 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.