Abstract
This paper is an attempt to describe a historical process that the Japanese Government has been making legal system for Land Readjustment, which is one of the most effective tool of city planning in the modern period. The government selected an administrative method called ‘replotting disposition’ to change land use as Land Consolidation Act in 1899. The method has been developed for urban development and reconstruction for damaged urbanized area. Land Readjustment Act in 1954, Act on Special Measures Supplying Housing in Metropolitan Area in 1975 and Act on Special Measures Reconstruction for Damaged Urban Area in 1995, etc. were enacted to achieve such objects.
The author could find new knowledge on customary title exchanging, change reputation of an old act for farmland improvement and identify origin of basic legal terminology on Land Readjustment Act in this historical study.
