Kengo Hashiba’s latest article in his series on Japan’s vacant housing problem has been published in the 5th December 2019 issue (No. 347) of Profession Journal. This article looks at the legal responsibility of a property owner when waste is illegally dumped in a vacant house or on vacant land. A preview of the article (in Japanese) is available at https://profession-net.com/professionjournal/law-383/.