A Review of Studies on the Zoning under the Agriculture Promotion Areas Act.

Effects of land-use master plans in the metropolitan fringe of Japan

“…While the City Planning Act does not set a zoning system in urbanization control zones, in order to promote agricultural activities the "Agriculture Promotion Zone Act" was enacted in 1969 to establish "agriculture promotion zone" as a land-use master plan (Fukuyo, 1996). Many prime farmlands in agriculture promotion zones are now covered by a zoning system called "agricultural land zone".…”