The Kobe District Court on Monday ordered disabled people, who have been staging a sit-in at a makeshift factory constructed by the city of Kobe, to leave the premises as demanded by the city's housing and urban development corporation.
More than 10 disabled workers of the Seiko Kyodo Sagyosho group have refused to leave the factory in Kobe's Nagata Ward despite the corporation's requests.
The factory is one of six such facilities the city built to support small to medium-size local companies after the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake.
The corporation and the disabled workers' group agreed in 1999 that the workers would vacate the building in March 2000.