About 300 dogs Nihon teria are currently registered in the FCI. It would certainly be a lot more, but last year’s tsunami in Japan meant that a large proportion of these dogs just died.
In Europe, there are seven registered units (four in the Czech Republic, one in Poland, Norway and Russia), one of them is a Czech female and she’s not shown on shows.
This year, only three dogs (two females and a dog) have been shown at shows in Europe and Japan.
The number of registered pups Nihon teria in Japan:
Year: 1999 – 156*
2000 – 166
2001 – 178
2002 – 152
2003 – 152
2004 – 132
2005 – 74
2006 – 61
2007 – 52
2008 – 42
2009 – 37
2010 – 54
2011 – 18
* – The source of the official Japan Kennel Club site, the public data.