Japan enacts law to tighten land-use rules at high-importance sites

Japan's parliament enacted a law Wednesday tightening regulations on the acquisition and use of land around infrastructure deemed vital to national security, such as Self-Defense Forces bases and nuclear plants.The House of Councillors passed a bill in the early hours of Wednesday despite strong resistance by some opposition parties who said the bill could excessively impinge on individual rights and give the government power to apply it arbitrarily.The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and a government panel had called for tighter regulations following cases of foreign entities owning land o…READ FULL ARTICLE