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be selected, the plan will be certified, and
an occupancy right for up to 30 years will
be granted by MLIT.
Based on the basic policy set forth in
Articles 7 and 8 of the New Act, METI and
MLIT on 27 December 2019 designated
the area offshore from Goto City, Nagasaki
Prefecture (“Goto”) as a Promotion Zone,
and on 21 July 2020 designated the areas
offshore from Noshiro City, Akita
Prefecture (“Noshiro”), Yurihonjo City
(north side and south side), Akita
Prefecture (“Yurihonjo”) and Choshi City
in Chiba Prefecture (“Choshi”) as
additional Promotion Zones, in
accordance with the standards set out in
the New Act.
New developments as of 13 September
2021
a)The sea area offshore Happou Town
and Noshiro City, Akita Prefecture
(“Happou”) was designated as a new
promotion zone.
b)A total of seven areas offshore from the
following cities will be reorganized as
promising zones, including the
following four newly added offshore
areas:
•sea area offshore Oga City,
Katagami City and Akita City, Akita
Prefecture
•sea area offshore Yuza Town,
Yamagata Prefecture
•sea area offshore Murakami City
and Tainai City, Niigata Prefecture;
and
•sea area offshore Isumi City, Chiba
Prefecture.
The three current promising zones are
offshore from the following cities:
•Sea of Japan offshore Aomori
Prefecture (north side of the
prefecture);
•Sea of Japan offshore Aomori
Prefecture (south side of the
prefecture), ; and
•sea area offshore Eno Island, Saikai
City, Nagasaki Prefecture.
c)The following ten offshore areas have
been reorganized as areas to advance to
the preparatory stage, which as noted
above means they may become
promising zones in the future:
•sea area offshore Ishikari City,
Hokkaido Prefecture;
•sea area offshore the Gan-u and
Minami-shiribeshi regions,
Hokkaido;
•sea area offshore Shimamaki,
Hokkaido;
•sea area offshore Hiyama,
Hokkaido;
•sea area offshore Matsumae,
Hokkaido;
• Mutsu Bay, Aomori Prefecture;
•sea area offshore Kuji City, Iwate
Prefecture;
•sea area offshore Awara City, Fukui
Prefecture;