How Do You Change a Dog's NIPPO Ownership?

You have the previous owner fill out one of these. The previous owner fills in their personal information and membership number, and either stamps it with their personal 'seal' or signature.


Then you as the new owner fill out the rest of the card, and send it in to NIPPO along with 2000JPY and the original pedigree. And there you go. A few weeks later you'll receive the new pedigree in the mail. Just note here that you must be a NIPPO member to have a dog's NIPPO ownership transferred to you.

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There were some great points made in the comments by @Éadaoin about NIPPO ownership and registration, so I'm editing it into this post.

Probably worth pointing out too that
a) You have to be the registered owner of a bitch to register her puppies in your kennel name with NIPPO
b) You have to be the registered owner of a stud dog to sign for his matings in NIPPO
c) A JKC export pedigree is not proof of ownership in NIPPO so you MUST get the stamped transfer card from the previous owner when you import a dog from Japan, otherwise no NIPPO puppies for your stud or brood, and
d) Don't rely on an import agent or translator to know (or to care about) these things at the point of sale. Be sure to ask for it. It may be very difficult to get back in contact with the previous owner once the dog has been exported, if you realise later on you need this done. I've seen people make this mistake again and again.

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  1. Probably worth pointing out too that
    a) You have to be the registered owner of a bitch to register her puppies in your kennel name with NIPPO
    b) You have to be the registered owner of a stud dog to sign for his matings in NIPPO
    c) A JKC export pedigree is not proof of ownership in NIPPO so you MUST get the stamped transfer card from the previous owner when you import a dog from Japan, otherwise no NIPPO puppies for your stud or brood, and
    d) Don't rely on an import agent or translator to know (or to care about) these things at the point of sale. Be sure to ask for it. It may be very difficult to get back in contact with the previous owner once the dog has been exported, if you realise later on you need this done. I've seen people make this mistake again and again.

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    1. All good points. I get a lot of requests for help with tracking down owners of dogs to get these little white cards.
      The problem I ran into when I would send these cards with NIPPO pedigrees is that the new owners would lose them, and then ask for ownership changes years later. That was a pain. So now, I keep all the cards filed here, and if I'm asked to do an ownership change, I have the cards ready.

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  2. But it must fill in the Nippo's address in ENGLISH if you want to mail Nippo from outside of Japan, like China ! anyone can share it's address in English ? Thanks in advance ~

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    1. NIPPO's email address is nippo@nihonken-hozonkai.or.jp

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  3. In the United States the Colonial Shiba Club offers to provide forms for Nippo Membership and Nippo registration paperwork. Just go to their website.





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  4. Correction for address: Nippoclassic.org/ is the address to use to get to the Colonial Shiba Club for Nippo paperwork.

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