wuac.info

WUAC is the World Union of Akita Clubs, a federation of Akita clubs in FCI countries. Its stated purpose is international cooperation among Akita lovers worldwide. It is relevant to you if you belong to an Akita club, breed or show Akitas, or follow the breed's health and judging standards and want a single international reference point.

Who WUAC serves

WUAC describes itself as the federation for Akita Clubs of the FCI countries for Akita. That framing tells you the primary audience:

• Akita clubs in FCI countries, which form the membership base
• Breeders and exhibitors who follow FCI-linked shows and standards
• Akita owners and enthusiasts looking for breed information, health projects, and event listings

If you are outside the FCI club structure, WUAC is still useful as a public reference, but it is not a general pet-owner service or a registry you join individually.

What the site actually provides

The WUAC site is organized around the federation's governance, the breed, and its events. The main sections listed are:

Two things stand out for practical use. First, the Articles of Union and Member Countries pages are where you confirm how the federation is structured and which clubs participate. Second, the Health Data Projects section is a concrete resource rather than a general statement: it hosts material on sebaceous adenitis (SA) in the Akita, including a project overview dated February 2015 by PD Dr. Ina Pfeiffer and Sara Baila.

The breed standard and judging content

Under "The Akita," WUAC summarizes the breed in standard language: a large-sized dog, sturdily built, well balanced and with much substance. It also links the standard itself, judging guidance, and colour information. For anyone preparing for a show or comparing how the breed is described across countries, this is the section to read first, because it reflects the FCI-oriented view that the member clubs share.

Events and the show calendar

WUAC lists club shows, specialty shows, and general assemblies, with dates and locations. Examples from the site include:

• WUAC General Assembly and Show 2026, Belgium — Clubshow 2026 on 27 June 2026
• Norway Japanese Dog Specialty 2025, 7–8 June 2025
• Netherlands NVAI 35 Jaar Lustrum — Kampioensclubmatch (KCM) 2026, 5 September 2026
• Italy: MONOGRAFICA CIRN 2023, 31 March – 2 April 2023
• Germany: Akita Club e.V. 40th Anniversary Show, 17–19 March 2017

The mix of future and past dates is worth noting: the calendar is a running record, so check the year before planning around an entry. The site also flags current notices, such as entries opening for the WUAC World Japanese Dog Show and an online Shikoku Seminar.

How to use WUAC if you are deciding whether to engage

• If you run or belong to an Akita club in an FCI country, start with the Articles of Union and Member Countries to see how the federation is organized and whether your club is represented.
• If you show or breed Akitas, use the standard, judging, and colour pages as a shared reference, and watch the events list for club shows and the general assembly.
• If you are researching breed health, go directly to the Health Data Projects section and read the SA material, noting its 2015 date so you can judge how current it is.
• If you want to attend something, verify the event year and location on the listing before making plans, since the calendar includes historical entries.

WUAC is best understood as a coordination body and information hub for the FCI-side Akita world, not a commercial service. Its value to you depends on whether you need that international club-level reference for showing, breeding, health research, or club affiliation.

The WUAC site lists one upcoming General Assembly and Show (2026, Belgium), an open call for entries to the WUAC World Japanese Dog Show, an online Shikoku Seminar, and a set of national club show entries with mixed years — some upcoming, some clearly historical. The list below reflects exactly what the site shows; dates and entry details should be confirmed on the linked pages, since the site does not publish prices or registration deadlines in the text available.

Upcoming WUAC and Member-Club Events

Events With Past or Unclear Dates

These entries appear on the same list but carry years that have already passed, or no year at all. Treat them as archive or reference items rather than things to plan around:

• Norway – Japanese Dog Specialty 2025, 7–8 June 2025
• Italy – MONOGRAFICA CIRN 2023, 31 March – 2 April 2023
• Germany – Akita Club e.V. 40th Anniversary Show, 17–19 March 2017

The mixed years are worth noting: the page functions as a running record of member-club shows rather than a clean calendar of only future events. If you are planning travel or entries, check each event's own page or the club's site before committing.

What the Page Does Not Tell You

The visible WUAC text gives no entry fees, closing dates, judges, venues, or registration process for any of these events. For the World Japanese Dog Show and the Shikoku Seminar, even the date and location are absent from the excerpt — only the "entries open" and "online" announcements appear. Anyone intending to enter should follow the linked pages from the WUAC home site rather than rely on the summary list.

How This Fits the Rest of the Site

The same navigation covers the federation's other functions: The World Union (managing board, member countries, Articles of Union, General Assembly, In Memoriam), The Akita (breed standard, judging the Akita, Akita colour, health data projects including the Sebaceous Adenitis work), and contact details. So if your interest is the breed standard or SA health data rather than events, those sections sit alongside the show listings in the main menu.

Practical Next Step

Start from the WUAC home page and open the specific event entry you care about — the General Assembly and Show 2026 in Belgium, the World Japanese Dog Show entry announcement, or the Shikoku Seminar — to get dates, venue and entry conditions. For national club shows, the member club's own site is the more reliable source, since the WUAC list only names the event and year.

The World Union of Akita Clubs (WUAC) is a federation of Akita clubs in FCI countries, formed to support international cooperation among Akita enthusiasts. Its site organizes the organization into a Managing Board, Member Countries, Articles of Union, and a General Assembly, with separate sections for the Akita breed standard, judging, health projects, and shows. The site does not list the full member roster on its home page, so the Member Countries page is the place to confirm which countries are represented.

Governance structure

The WUAC presents itself through four organizational pages that together describe how it runs:

Managing Board

The Managing Board is the leadership layer of the federation. The site keeps it as a distinct section rather than folding it into general "about" content, which signals that board information is maintained separately from the member club list.

Member Countries

Membership is organized by country, through national Akita clubs in FCI countries. The Member Countries page is the authoritative place to check whether a given country has a member club. Because the home page does not enumerate members, treat that page—not the welcome text—as the source for the current list.

Articles of Union

The Articles of Union are the federation's governing rules. For anyone trying to understand how decisions are made or what obligations member clubs carry, this is the document to read; the site treats it as a standalone reference rather than summarizing it on the home page.

General Assembly

The General Assembly is where the membership meets. The site pairs it with the show calendar: the next General Assembly and Show is listed for 2026 in Belgium. This pairing reflects the pattern that WUAC business meetings run alongside shows.

Shows and events as part of the organization

WUAC's activity is visible through its event listings, which show how member clubs operate nationally and how the federation convenes internationally:

• Belgium: CLUBSHOW 2026, 27 June 2026 — also the site of the next WUAC General Assembly and Show
• Norway: Japanese Dog Specialty 2025, 7–8 June 2025
• Netherlands: NVAI 35 Jaar Lustrum – Kampioensclubmatch (KCM) 2026, 5 September 2026
• Italy: MONOGRAFICA CIRN 2023, 31 March – 2 April 2023
• Germany: Akita Club e.V. 40th Anniversary Show, 17–19 March 2017

The site also announces that entries are open for the WUAC World Japanese Dog Show and that an online Shikoku Seminar is available. These notices sit on the home page alongside the event list, so check them for current participation opportunities.

Breed, health, and judging resources

Beyond governance, WUAC maintains reference material that explains what the federation does for the breed:

• The Akita and The Standard — breed description and standard reference; the site describes the Akita as a large-sized dog, sturdily built, well balanced and with much substance.
• Judging the Akita and Akita Colour — guidance for judges and colour classification.
• Seminars at WUAC/JKC meetings — educational sessions held in conjunction with Japan Kennel Club meetings.
• Health Data Projects — including a sebaceous adenitis (SA) project in the Akita, with a 2015 overview by PD Dr. Ina Pfeiffer and Sara Baila, cand. Dipl.-Biol., and a separate SA tested Akita section.

How to use this to answer your own question

If you want to know whether your country is represented, go to the Member Countries page rather than relying on the event list—events show activity, not membership. If you want to understand how the federation governs itself, read the Articles of Union and the General Assembly section together. If you are looking for breed or health information, the Standard, Judging, Colour, and Health Data Projects pages are the relevant references. For contact, the site provides a dedicated Contact page.

WUAC's site gives you a starting point, not a full database: it hosts a Health Data Projects section with an SA tested Akita area and a project page titled SA – Current Overview, attributed to PD Dr. Ina Pfeiffer and Sara Baila (cand. Dipl.-Biol.), dated February 2015. If you need current test results, pedigrees, or breeding advice, this material alone will not answer those questions — it points you to a research overview and to the federation's health-project framework.

What is actually on the site

The navigation lists these health-related entries:

• Health Data Projects — the umbrella section for WUAC health work
• SA tested Akita — a dedicated area for SA-tested dogs
• SA – Current Overview — the project write-up, credited to PD Dr. Ina Pfeiffer and Sara Baila, cand. Dipl.-Biol., February 2015

The excerpt confirms the researchers and the 2015 date but does not reproduce the overview's contents, so treat the page as a pointer to the project rather than a source of statistics.

How to use it as a breeder or owner

1. Open the Health Data Projects section from the main navigation.
2. Go to SA tested Akita to see what testing information WUAC publishes.
3. Read SA – Current Overview for the project's framing and the researchers involved.
4. Note the February 2015 date before relying on any figure — check whether a newer version exists on the site or through the member club in your country.

Expected result: you will know what WUAC's SA project covers and who led it, and you can decide whether to contact your national Akita club for more recent data.

Limits to keep in mind

• The site does not state that SA testing is mandatory, nor does it publish a public results database in the material available.
• The overview is dated 2015; breeding decisions should rest on current veterinary guidance and your club's health schemes, not on a decade-old summary.
• WUAC describes itself as the federation for Akita clubs in FCI countries, so your national club is the practical route to testing records and litter-level information.

For the breed itself, the site separately hosts The Standard and Judging the Akita pages, which are the place to go for conformation questions rather than health data.

The World Union of Akita Clubs (WUAC) site, wuac.info, publishes the Akita breed standard and judging guidance under two dedicated sections in its main navigation: The Akita → The Standard and The Akita → Judging the Akita. These pages sit alongside related material on Akita colour and health, and are aimed at owners, breeders and judges who want a single reference point rather than scattered club documents.

What the WUAC Standard Section Covers

The WUAC describes the Akita in brief as a large-sized dog, sturdily built, well balanced and with much substance. That short characterisation is the site's own summary of the breed; the full standard text is reached through the "The Standard" page under "The Akita" menu heading.

Use this section when you need:

• The official breed description as recognised by WUAC member clubs in FCI countries
• A shared reference for evaluating whether a dog matches type
• Background reading before entering a WUAC-linked show or club match

Because WUAC is described on the site as the federation for Akita Clubs of the FCI countries, the standard material there is the appropriate starting point for anyone preparing a dog for an FCI-country club event.

Judging the Akita: What to Expect

The Judging the Akita page is a separate entry in the same menu, so judging guidance is kept distinct from the standard itself. This separation is useful: the standard tells you what the breed should be, while the judging page addresses how that is assessed in the ring.

If you are:

• A judge or aspiring judge — read the standard first, then the judging page, so the assessment criteria are anchored to the written breed description.
• An exhibitor — use both pages to understand what is being looked for before a show, rather than relying on second-hand summaries.
• A breeder — treat the standard as the reference for conformation decisions and the judging page as a check on how priorities are weighted in evaluation.

Related Pages Worth Opening

The same "The Akita" menu area includes Akita Colour, which addresses coat colour as a distinct topic. Colour is frequently a point of confusion in Akita discussion, so reading it alongside the standard avoids treating colour as an afterthought.

Two further sections on the site support the same purpose:

Health information on the site is presented as project material with dated sources, so check the date before treating any figure as current.

Practical Route Through the Site

1. Open wuac.info and use the main navigation.
2. Go to The Akita → The Standard for the breed description.
3. Continue to The Akita → Judging the Akita for assessment guidance.
4. Open The Akita → Akita Colour if coat colour is relevant to your question.
5. Check Shows, Events & Meetings if you need the event context in which judging takes place.

The site does not present these pages as a downloadable package in the material available, so plan to read them on-screen. If you need the standard for a specific national club's requirements, confirm with that club as well — WUAC operates as a federation, and individual member clubs may publish their own supplementary guidance.