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It is of course no surprise that the Japanese value land. They do have a rather great scarcity of it, specially generally usable land in areas where people want to be. I am sure there is all sorts of land available in the mountains south of Akita, but who is going to do what living there?
BTW, I believe that Nathaniels excellent exposition on the history of development of English land laws is more or less correct, but it is also more or less irrelevant as far as application of today's laws goes. One thing that is fundamentally correct is that whoever is the sovereign either through legal succession or through the barrel of the gun ultimately decides what laws shall apply.
For example, in India in many places it is almost impossible to evict a long term tenant, who even refuses to pay rent any more, and courts or the police or any of the other tentacles of the sovereign or anyone else will mostly do nothing about it, specially if said tenant is even mildly politically connected with the right party. One has to be very careful to limit rentals to short periods and actually remove the party from the property at the end of the lease to keep control, And this is in a legal system that is largely derived from English Common law to boot.
So there is good theory and then there is hopelessly screwed up practice, and practice with muscle behind it always seems to trump everything else.
BTW, I believe that Nathaniels excellent exposition on the history of development of English land laws is more or less correct, but it is also more or less irrelevant as far as application of today's laws goes. One thing that is fundamentally correct is that whoever is the sovereign either through legal succession or through the barrel of the gun ultimately decides what laws shall apply.
For example, in India in many places it is almost impossible to evict a long term tenant, who even refuses to pay rent any more, and courts or the police or any of the other tentacles of the sovereign or anyone else will mostly do nothing about it, specially if said tenant is even mildly politically connected with the right party. One has to be very careful to limit rentals to short periods and actually remove the party from the property at the end of the lease to keep control, And this is in a legal system that is largely derived from English Common law to boot.
So there is good theory and then there is hopelessly screwed up practice, and practice with muscle behind it always seems to trump everything else.
