JAPAN: Public-Private Engagement in Japan Underpinned by its Legislative Framework

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01 June 2020

Legislative Framework in Brief 

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the National Meteorological and Hydrological Service (NMHS) of Japan, is one of the affiliated agencies of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan. The legislative framework under which JMA carries out its mandate comprises several laws and acts, as follows: 

• the Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, 

• the Meteorological Service Act , 

• the Basic Act on Disaster Management, 

• the Civil Aeronautics Act, 

• the Act on the Protection of the Ozone Layer Through the Control of Specified Substances, etc. and Other Measures, and 

• other related acts, ordinances, rules and regulations

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