Since the 9.0 quake moved the Japanese island 8 feet from it's earlier position, and the recovery and rebuilding efforts will be undertaken in the coming years, interesting questions about land identification are raised.
The base meridian measures, if a Metze and Bounds system is used, would need to be ajusted to account for this. How would you make such a notation in the legal descriptions to reflect this change?
GPS coordinates will be off, so this too raises a (more modern) land identifer question about how devices that link to social networks and such will be adjusted to the new locations and positions of businesses and properties.
The lot and block, book and page descriptors should be relatively unchabged, but the challenge of a local surveyor to identifying the lots when an island is moved, become an interesting situation. With families tracing lineages back to the 13th Century and earlier, much cultural pride may be wrapped up in where land is located and who owns it.
It also sounds as if the rebuild efforts may involve the influx of many foreign construction workers, architects, contractors and others. Anyone here involved in land records and title matters involving Japan? My wife and I have studied Japanese for many years and would be glad to lend our title experience to any rebuild efforts over there. It would be a fascinating experience and truly representative of the global nature of our world.
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