07:59 GMT 17.03.2016Get short URL 34 The lower house of the Japanese parliament adopted a law on Thursday prohibiting drone flights over strategically important facilities and government buildings. © Photo : Youtube/JIJIPRESS TOKYO (Sputnik) — The new legislation specifically bans flights over the residence of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and empowers local police to shoot down drones, where necessary. The law is set to come into effect before the 2016 G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting to be held in Hiroshima on April 10-11. In April 2015, a Japanese national landed a drone with radioactive soil on Abe’s residence in protest at the restarting of one of the reactors at the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant in August of last year for the first time since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.
Following last year 's drone incident that saw a drone carrying radioactive soil land on the Prime Minister 's residence , the Japanese Government has introduced new legislation that prohibits drone flights over strategically important facilities and government buildings . It will allow local police to shoot down a rogue drone , and specifically prohibit flights over the Prime Minister 's residence .