Hokkaido Prefecture will be introducing support measures that will provide funding to local cities, towns and villages so that they may purchase tracts of land that foreign investors are planning to buy.

The measures are being introduced in response to growing concern over acquisition of forestry and water sources by foreign investors with unclear motives.

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