Lawmakers on Wednesday enacted a law designed to promote communities on remote islands with the aim of protecting the nation’s territorial integrity amid China’s increasing maritime assertiveness and other territorial disputes with neighboring countries.
The bill, passed by the Diet’s House of Councilors, provides financial support for such remote islands to try to keep them inhabited as a way of helping to secure the nation’s territorial waters and exclusive economic zones.
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