Tokyo District Court officials on Sunday removed activists' tents from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, five years after they initiated protests against the government's handling of the Fukushima nuclear crisis.
"The government is pushing through the reactivation of nuclear power plants without taking responsibility (for the Fukushima crisis)," said a 53-year-old company employee who had been staying in one of the tents on Saturdays since the first one was erected in September 2011.
"We will carry on with our protests," he said.