You can check if a PO file is valid with the following command:

        msgfmt -c -o /dev/null <po file>
      

The following errors were found in debian-policy 's PO files:

gettext: locales/ja/LC_MESSAGES/upgrading-checklist.po:4004: duplicate message definition...
locales/ja/LC_MESSAGES/upgrading-checklist.po:86: ...this is the location of the first definition
msgfmt: found 1 fatal error
gettext: policy/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/ch-binary.po:84: end-of-line within string
policy/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/ch-binary.po:170: end-of-line within string
msgfmt: found 2 fatal errors
      

Please ask the translator (identified by the Last-Translator field in the PO file), the language team (identified by the Language-Team field) or debian-i18n for a fix.