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News Source Record

# News Source Record

**L-Ne / Open-source news extract** — Original media coverage of unmanned aerial systems.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Collection date | 27 October 2015 |
| Platform | Quiet Systems |
| Data label | Open-source news record // LRRK collection product |
| Handling | Public-source material. Image rights require separate verification before publication. |
| Scale | National |
| Language | Japanese |
| Terms matched | ドローン; 小型無人機 |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| Outlet | Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) |
| Title | ドローン規制、12月10日から　改正航空法 |
| Dateline | 27 October 2015, 19:33 JST |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXLASFS27H4M_X21C15A0EE8000/ |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2015-10-27|nikkei|amended-aviation-act-dec10 |
| Source grade | B1 |

## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — B1]** Nikkei reported the government cabinet decision on the 27th setting 10 December as the enforcement date of the amended Aviation Act regulating small unmanned aircraft (drones). The amendment, passed 4 September, was the first operational-rule set for drones that had been effectively outside legal regulation: flight over densely inhabited districts or near airports would require national permission. MLIT would define those districts by ministerial ordinance, envisioned as areas with 4,000 or more people per square kilometre — Tokyo's 23 wards and major-city urban areas.

**Kinematic object.** Small unmanned aircraft (drones) brought under the amended Aviation Act from 10 December 2015.

**Coverage frame.** regulatory

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original: Nikkei same-day first-publisher report of the cabinet ordinance fixing the enforcement date.
- Wire reprint status: Not a wire reprint.
- What was excluded: Full ministerial-ordinance text and the 200-gram threshold detail (stated in a later Nikkei piece, not this page).

## LRRK relevance

Passport / Control Fabric. First Japanese statutory flight rules for small UAS after the Kantei incident.

*LRRK — security assurance for systems that sense, move, and act.*

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