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| Man arrested for landing drone on Shinzo Abe's office in nuclear protest | |
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| A Japanese man has been arrested for landing a drone on the prime minister’s office with a minuscule amount of radiation in an apparent protest against the use of nuclear power, four years after the Fukushima disaster. | |
| Unemployed Yasuo Yamamoto, 40, who lives in Fukui Prefecture in western Japan, was arrested on Friday and charged with obstruction of official business, police said. | |
| The maximum penalty is three years in prison or a 500,000 yen (£2,770) fine. | |
| Media reported that Yamamoto turned himself in at a police station in Fukui and said he landed the drone as a protest against nuclear power. | |
| Police in Tokyo and Fukui declined to comment on Yamamoto’s motives, saying the investigation had not finished. | |
| A drone marked with a radioactive sign was found on the roof of Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s office on Wednesday. The radiation was so low it was not harmful to humans. | |
| Yamamoto said he put radioactive sand that he got from Fukushima in a container on the drone, media reported. | |
| A Japanese court on Wednesday approved the restart of a nuclear power station in the southwest of the country, rejecting worries about nuclear safety in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima radiation disaster. | |
| An earthquake and tsunami triggered meltdowns at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima in the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl 25 years earlier. |