Japanese man arrested for landing drone on PM's office in nuclear protest


  • World
  • Saturday, 25 Apr 2015

Officials carry a blue box that local media reported contains a drone from the rooftop of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's official residence in Tokyo April 22, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

TOKYO (Reuters) - 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.

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