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Japan's English page keeps registration, permission, and certificates apart.

MLIT lists registration, flight permission, a pilot certificate, and aircraft certification as different steps. One approval does not finish the others.

Pages opened through 6 November 2026

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Read the step names before you read a slogan about level four. The steps on this page are already separate.

The Japanese guide uses a light Hiroshima dialect. A native speaker has not reviewed it.

On this pageThe English page lists a sequenceA manual date is not a new legal code

The English page lists a sequence

From the page

The page lists registration, flight permission or approval, a flight-plan report, a flight log, and accident reporting.

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From the page

It says an unmanned aircraft of 100 g or more must be registered, show a registration ID, and carry a remote ID function.

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From the page

It lists a remote-pilot certificate and a UAS certification as other rules, beside the flight-permission steps.

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From the page

The registration portal's headlines say advance registration was accepted through the 19 June 2022 batch, and that remote-ID specific-area filings and test-flight filings opened on 1 June 2022. The linked notices were not opened.

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A 12 December 2022 notice updates article numbers in the prohibited-airspace notice. The airspace tables in that PDF are marked as omitted, so no airport list was in the file. The statute and the DIPS manual were not opened.

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A manual date is not a new legal code

From the page

The page marks a DIPS 2.0 operating manual as revised on 24 March 2025.

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The manual file was not opened. This page does not say that every Japanese rule changed on that day.

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