Fukuoka prefectural authorities are asking homeless people to stay out of a park in the prefectural capital where a dinner of Group of Seven financial officials is scheduled to take place next month, supporters for the homeless said Sunday.
The dinner is scheduled to be held in a building in Ohori Park, where nearly two dozen homeless people are believed to live. The event will precede the July 8 meeting of G7 finance ministers and central bankers here.
Workers from Fukuoka Prefecture's parks and streets department have gone to the park to ask the homeless to leave during the G7 meeting and to take their belongings with them.
"We have asked all the homeless people in the park to leave so as not to cause disruptions during the finance meeting," said a department official. "We also want them to take their belongings and remove their shelters."