Japan's Parliamentary League for UAP Clarification Delivers Formal Proposal to Defence Minister Gen Nakatani

On 16 May 2026, members of Japan's cross-party Parliamentary League for UAP Clarification from a Security Perspective delivered a formal proposal to Defence Minister Gen Nakatani, asking the Ministry of Defence to establish a specialised division focused on three tasks: collecting and analysing UAP-related data, disclosing relevant findings to the public, and reporting investigation results regularly to the National Diet. Nakatani, one of the original supporters of the parliamentary league, acknowledged the proposal and stated, 'As one of the league's founding members, I continue to recognise the strategic importance of UAPs.' The proposal lands five days after Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara's 11 May 2026 on-the-record confirmation that Tokyo possesses its own UAP video footage and is analysing the Pentagon's 8 May PURSUE release. It also follows the 24 March 2026 announcement by the same caucus of plans for a coordination body under the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary for Crisis Management. Together, the Kihara confirmation, the Nakatani submission and the cabinet-level proposal mark the fastest sustained pivot by any major US ally toward a structured UAP transparency framework since PURSUE began.