{
  "verdict": "act_now",
  "summary": "Your item: act now. ask where you lost it and file a police report. Kept until at least 2027-02-11.",
  "items": [
    "other"
  ],
  "place": "unknown",
  "operator": "unknown",
  "prefecture": "unknown",
  "facility": {
    "kind": "none",
    "label": "Street or unknown: a finder takes it to a police box (交番)",
    "toPoliceWithinDays": 7,
    "highValue": false
  },
  "dates": {
    "today": "2026-11-11",
    "lostDate": "2026-11-11",
    "daysSinceLost": 0,
    "safeLastClaimDate": "2027-02-11",
    "daysLeft": 92,
    "likelyGoneAfter": "2027-02-18",
    "shortHoldDisposalFrom": null
  },
  "timeline": [
    {
      "date": "2026-11-11",
      "event": "Lost. Ask the place you lost it today: items often stay at the station, shop or desk for the first day or so."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-11-18",
      "event": "A finder who keeps their reward rights must hand it to a police box (交番) within 7 days."
    },
    {
      "date": "2027-02-11",
      "event": "Safe last day to claim: found items are kept 3 months from the day they're handed in. If handed in later than the day you lost it, this moves later, never earlier."
    },
    {
      "date": "2027-02-18",
      "event": "After about now, assume it's gone: it goes to the finder (2-month pickup window) or, for phones, cards and IDs, is destroyed."
    }
  ],
  "steps": [
    "File a lost property report (遺失届) at any police box (交番) or station, or online in many prefectures. Give the time, place, colour, brand, contents and any name or number on it. Keep the acceptance number (受理番号): insurance and reissues ask for it.",
    "Search found items online: Police lost property search (45 prefectures share the NPA system; Tokyo and Osaka run their own) https://lostproperty.pcf.npa.go.jp/ZDSERVFP/SZDSA0101. Items found in transit may be with the police near the final station."
  ],
  "residenceCard": null,
  "reward": null,
  "visitor": false,
  "contacts": {
    "police": {
      "emergency": "110",
      "consultation": "#9110"
    },
    "operator": null,
    "policeSearch": {
      "label": "Police lost property search (45 prefectures share the NPA system; Tokyo and Osaka run their own)",
      "url": "https://lostproperty.pcf.npa.go.jp/ZDSERVFP/SZDSA0101"
    }
  },
  "links": [
    {
      "label": "Police lost property search (45 prefectures share the NPA system; Tokyo and Osaka run their own)",
      "url": "https://lostproperty.pcf.npa.go.jp/ZDSERVFP/SZDSA0101"
    },
    {
      "label": "NPA: lost something? (English)",
      "url": "https://www.npa.go.jp/bureau/soumu/ishitsubutsu/otoshimono/en/index.html"
    }
  ],
  "note": "A lost property report only lets the police match it when someone hands it in; they don't go and search. It doesn't prove the loss. Items with personal information (phones, cards, IDs) never go to the finder.",
  "rulesAsOf": "2026-11-03",
  "sources": [
    "https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/418AC0000000073",
    "https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/419CO0000000021",
    "https://www.npa.go.jp/bureau/soumu/ishitsubutsu/otoshimono/en/index.html",
    "https://www.npa.go.jp/bureau/soumu/ishitsubutsu/otoshimono/en/lost-institution.html",
    "https://www.npa.go.jp/bureau/soumu/ishitsubutsu/otoshimono/en/loss.html",
    "https://www.npa.go.jp/bureau/soumu/ishitsubutsu/otoshimono/en/others.html",
    "https://www.npa.go.jp/bureau/soumu/ishitsubutsu/otoshimono/todofukenishitubutu.html",
    "https://www.police.pref.kanagawa.jp/tetsuzuki/otoshimono/mesa1905.html",
    "https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/applications/procedures/nyuukokukanri10_00010.html",
    "https://services.digital.go.jp/mynumbercard/lost-stolen/",
    "https://www.keishicho.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/multilingual/english/finding_services/lost_and_found/lost_found.html",
    "https://www.tokyometro.jp/lang_en/support/lost/index.html"
  ],
  "disclaimer": "Educational guide built from public rules, not legal advice and not an official service. Not affiliated with the National Police Agency, any prefectural police, the Immigration Services Agency, the Digital Agency, any railway, airport or taxi company, or any government body. It cannot search for or find your item; dates are estimates from the legal periods, and the real ones run from the day the item was handed in. Rules as of 2026-11-03.",
  "docs": "https://japan-lost-item.vercel.app/openapi.json"
}