Hanoi (VNA) – Japan’s experience in land management was introduced at aworkshop held in Hanoi on December 8 within the framework of the “initiativeand research on Japan-ASEAN strategic policy on land management institution”programme.
According to Masahito Hatoyama, deputy head of the Land Economy andConstruction Industries under Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure,Transport and Tourism, land policy in Japan has focused on the planning ofcities, farming and forestry land, and parks, and natural disaster response.
Prof. Shigeru Morichi from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, saidthe national land use planning should take account of changes impacting on landmanagement and challenges to the work.
To ensure safe and sustainable land use, it is necessary to put forth basicland use guidelines, he added.
Participants at the workshop also heard a report on outcomes of researchstudies comparing land policies of Vietnam and Japan.-VNA