The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has decided to break a 6-year-old impasse with environmentalists by expropriating two plots of land to expand a municipal landfill in the town of Hinode, western Tokyo, officials announced Tuesday.
The metro government will take the land between Oct. 10 and Oct. 23 if the 2,834 protesters who own the 461 sq. meters do not relinquish their plots by then.
The property in question will be used to expand a Futatsuzuka landfill.