Several companies have trialled drone delivery of goods; commercial use may soon become a reality in restricted areas such as remote islands and mountainous regions, as the government prepares to lift the ban there:
小型無人機ドローンによる遠方への荷物の配送が、早ければ今月中にも、人が少ない離島や山間部に限って解禁される。
Delivery of packages to distant locations by small unmanned drones may be permitted as early as this month, limited to sparsely populated remote islands and mountainous areas.
遠方
えんぽう · ENPOU
Distant place.
山間部
さんかんぶ · SANKANBU
Mountainous region.
解禁
かいきん · KAIKIN
Lifting of a ban.