Case file · Official inquiry
The Diet's UAP caucus
In June 2024 more than 80 lawmakers formed a cross-party league to study unidentified anomalous phenomena as a national-security question, chaired by former defence minister Yasukazu Hamada.
2024 CE · 35.68, 139.75 · status: official
The account
Shinjirō Koizumi became secretary-general and Shigeru Ishiba an adviser. The league asked the government to gather and analyse sightings, set up a body to match the US Pentagon's AARO, and later proposed a command centre in the Cabinet Secretariat.