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JAPANESE police have arrested a man who admitted to landing a drone loaded with radioactive sand on the roof of the prime minister’s office.
Officials said on Saturday that the landing had been a protest against the government’s nuclear energy policy.
Tokyo police said that Yasuo Yamamoto had turned himself in to authorities late on Friday in Fukui, western Japan.
The small drone had shown traces of radiation and had triggered fears of potential terrorist attacks using unmanned aerial devices, the prime minister’s office said.
Mr Yamamoto was arrested for flying the drone and obstructing official duties at the office.
Fukui is home to about a quarter of Japan’s 48 reactors, which are currently all offline following the tsunami-triggered 2011 Fukushima plant disaster.
The drone was carrying a small camera and a plastic bottle containing radioactive sand from Fukushima prefecture, where radiation levels are still high.
