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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.
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.
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.
From the page
It lists a remote-pilot certificate and a UAS certification as other rules, beside the flight-permission steps.
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.
news-mlit-drone-portal · Page 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.
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.
Pages behind this text
- Flight Rules for Unmanned Aircraft ↗Civil Aviation Bureau, MLIT · page-opened · mlit-en-uas
- MLIT unmanned aircraft registration portal ↗Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism · page-opened · news-mlit-drone-portal
- MLIT notice amending the unmanned-aircraft prohibited-airspace notice ↗Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism · full-text · news-mlit-notice-2022-1257
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