Guideline for Verification on Legality and Sustainability of Wood and Wood Products. Country/Territory Japan Document type Miscellaneous Date 2006 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Forestry Keyword Forest management/forest conservation Timber Timber extraction/logging Certification International trade Internal trade Geographical area Asia, Asia and the Pacific, Eastern Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific Abstract For the purpose of contributing to a solution for international illegal logging, the government of Japan has introduced a system to give a priority to governmental purchases of wood and wood products that can be identified by their legality based on the logging of forests. Full text Japanese/English Website www.goho-wood.jp; https