一ひと坪つぼ運うん動どう

noun

one-tsubo movement; campaign to block public works by buying tiny plots

A historical Japanese protest tactic where activists purchase a minuscule piece of land (one tsubo ≈ 3.3 m²) within a planned construction site to legally obstruct the project. The term is specific to Japanese land-acquisition activism.

• 成なり田た空くう港こう建けん設せつに反はん対たいする人ひと々びとが一ひと坪つぼ運うん動どうを展てん開かいした。

  People opposing the construction of Narita Airport carried out the one-tsubo movement.

• 一ひと坪つぼ運うん動どうは、土と地ち収しゅう用よう法ほうの隙すき間まを突ついた抗こう議ぎ手しゅ法ほうだった。

  The one-tsubo movement was a protest method that exploited loopholes in the land expropriation law.