Summary of White Paper on Land (2004)

Introduction
1.   The Impact of Land Price Decline
2. Levels of Understanding
Regarding the Lucrative-ness of Land as an Asset
3.   Expansion of the Real Property Securitization Market
1.   Trends in Land Prices
2.   The Status of Land Transactions
1.   Demographic Trends and their Effect on Land and Urban Areas
2.   Changes in Household Composition and Life-Style;
and in the Demand for Land
3.  Changes in the Socio Economic Environment and their Influence on Land
4. The Enhancement of Real Property Appraisal Systems

(See also Chapter 2 and 3 for land information and cadastral surveys)

1.   Amendment of the Land Tax System
2.   Current Status of the Real Property Securitization Market
3.  Promoting the Use of Fixed-term Land Leases
and Fixed-term Tenant Leases
4. Approaches for Improving the Utility and Effective Use of Land

1.   Characteristics of the Land Market
2.   The Growing Need for Information
1.   The Need for Electronic Information Processing using Computers
2.   Provision of Property Information Using the Internet
1. The Role of the Published Land Price System
2. The Published Land Price System: Information Provision
   and Related Issues
1.   The Significance of Providing Transaction-price Information
2.   Public Awareness
3.  “The Promotion of Terms and Conditions in relation to the Land Market”:
  Recommendation by the Land Policy Committee
1.   Trends in Agricultural Land
2.   Trends of Forestry Land
1.   Trends in the Supply of Residential Land
2.   Trends in Residential Property Construction
1.   Land Ownership by the Private Sector
2. Land Owned by the Public Sector
3. Current Status of Value of Assets of Land
1.   Trends in Land Transactions
2. Current Status of Land Transactions by Parties
1.   General Conditions in the Tokyo Area
2. General Conditions in the Osaka Area
3. General Conditions in the Nagoya Area
4. General Conditions in Local Areas

Contact: tocjoh@mlit.go.jp

Land Information Division
Land and Water Bureau
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport

2-1-3 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan 100-8918
Tel: 81-3-5253-8375
Fax: 81-3-5253-1577
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