TOKYO -- Japan has set up a dedicated team to monitor land sales near bases and nuclear plants or on strategically located islands, under a new law designed to thwart hostile foreign players from acquiring plots that affect national security.
Information on such land so far has been managed by different government agencies. The 30-person agency under the Cabinet Office will become the new central authority on which of these plots are important to Japan's national security and should be subject to tougher transaction rules.
