LAND TENURE IN JAPAN.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1182, 24 May 1884, Page 3

LAND TENURE IN JAPAN.

A representative of the New Zealand Herald,interviewed the doctor on board the Tsukuba in Auckland, and obtained a good deal of interesting information from him relative to social and political customs in Japan. -It appears that the land is nationalised in Japan, ana (writes the Herald) "we are quite sure that Mr Kolleston would receive not a few valuable hints towardß his next Land Bill if he could have an hour's conversation with the surgeon of the Tsukuba. The Government of Japan simply gives a certificate to occupy land. If that certificate has been given the land is never taken without compensation. In old times different districts were held by the Daimois, or nobles, but now the land is all under the Emperor. The holders of land pay rent to the Government. The amount of 1 rent varies in different places, the highest being in the middle of the capital, and in those parte of the country where the soil is good. The land is inspected by Government officers, and the rent to be paid is settled. If the holder sells, he merely cells the right to occupy. The to occupy is perpetual so long as the rent is paid to the Government. There is not at present any liaiit to the amount of land a man may hold, but Dr Aoki thinks it likely that by-and-bye a limit will be put to the quantity any one person may hold.