Well, the root cause is that "plain" JSON actually doesn't know Perl objects: What JSON calls "objects", are actually hash references in Perl. Your TO_JSON method converts the inner object into a hash, but look closely at your output:
And we get output that looks good:
{"NAME":"A instance","MY_CLASS_B":{"NAME":"B instance"}}
Actually, the output only appears to look good because you used "MY_CLASS_B" as the key in your object $a and as the class name for the object it contains. But look at your TO_JSON method: Actually, the class name MY_CLASS_B is missing from the serialized string, and therefore the deserializer couldn't bless the hash reference even if it wanted to.
That's why the either "tagging" or post-processing the JSON output, as mentioned in the section Object Serialization of the JSON docs, is required.
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