Yasuo Yamamoto, 40, turned himself in to local police in Fukui prefecture, some 350 kilometres (220 miles) west of Tokyo, late Friday night with an apparent drone controller, saying he did it to express his anti-nuclear power stance, according to local media.
The unemployed man blogged that the drone had carried sand from Fukushima -- where nuclear reactors went into meltdown after the 2011 tsunami -- and a card voicing his opposition to atomic energy, reports said.
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