The Parliamentary Group for the Study of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena is a non-partisan body in the Japanese Diet focused on UAP policy. On March 24, 2026 the group announced it would formally propose creating a specialized government body to oversee UAP intelligence, with consideration scheduled for a Tokyo meeting on March 30, 2026 (src-japan-uap-strategy-proposal-2026-03).
Proposal summary
- Host body — Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary for Crisis Management, Cabinet Secretariat
- Framing — whole-of-government (not purely defense)
- Working hypothesis — human adversary technologies, not non-human intelligence
- Rationale cited — U.S. declassification under donald-trump; ongoing genkai-nuclear-uap-incident
The group’s work builds on former MP yoshiharu-asakawa’s rejected May 2025 proposal and on minoru-kihara’s 2024 Defense Ministry posture shift.