A few months ago we imported our two cats into Japan. That was a saga in itself, but that's a different story. Now I'm discovering that it's mandatory to have all cats and dogs microchipped and registered in Japan. You can read about it here https://reg.mc.env.go.jp/english.
It can usually all be done online, but the issue is that I only have the foreign certificate of microchip implantation rather than the machine readable Japanese one. When we imported the cats, it seems they did not actually issue us with microchip registration certificates at the time (which seems off).
Has anyone imported cats or dogs into Japan since 2019 and successfully registered their microchips with the Dog and cat microchip information registration system? I'd love some advice.
by Infamous_Scientist77