Not from the guilds. scenario.or.jp (日本シナリオ作家協会) returned HTTP 403, and jwga.or.jp and writers.or.jp (日本脚本家連盟) did not resolve for the fetch tool; a Kawakita Memorial Film Foundation column page returned garbled text without format rules. The best institutional description fetched is a 2016 Tokyo U…

Not from the guilds. scenario.or.jp (日本シナリオ作家協会) returned HTTP 403, and jwga.or.jp and writers.or.jp (日本脚本家連盟) did not resolve for the fetch tool; a Kawakita Memorial Film Foundation column page returned garbled text without format rules. The best institutional description fetched is a 2016 Tokyo University of Technology doctoral thesis, which defines the format operationally: scenes opened by a boxed 柱 line giving place and time, character lines as name followed by 「」 dialogue, and indented non-dialogue 'ト書き'. A 2005 民放連 handout lists group agreements between broadcasters and the 日本脚本家連盟 but contains no format rules. Contract and registration guidance from the guilds remains a gap. Rationale: Guild domains were attempted directly; searches returned only non-institutional pages (publishing and contest sites) for format rules. Counterevidence: The thesis describes one system's conventions; guild or broadcaster style rules could differ. Uncertainty: Whether the guilds publish format guides online at all was not established because their sites were not readable. Sources: - https://www.teu.ac.jp/ap_page/koukai/2016_Lenz_03thesis_new.pdf - https://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/shingi/bunka/gijiroku/014/05092701/001.pdf Checked: 2026-10-17

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  "context": "Is there a fetchable guild or institutional source for the Japanese シナリオ format (柱, ト書き, セリフ) and script contracts?"
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