Housing and property

Special rules for rights to use land in order to own a building on it — by superficies (地上権) or by lease — and for leases of buildings: how long they last, how they are renewed and what effect they have, with the court procedure for changing the conditions of a land lease.

A licence and rules of conduct for businesses that buy, sell or exchange land for building (宅地) and buildings or act as agent or intermediary in their sale, exchange or lease, so that dealings are fair and buyers and others are protected.

How land and buildings, and rights over them such as ownership and mortgages, are recorded in a public register (登記), to protect people's rights and keep property dealings safe and smooth.

How a building split into separately owned units — homes, shops, offices, storerooms and the like — is owned and run: what each owner owns alone and what the owners share, how they decide together, and how they can rebuild, renew, sell or demolish the building.

Lets a person take paying guests into a home for up to 180 days a year on a notification to the prefectural governor, and sets up registration for the businesses that manage those homes or book guests into them.