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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSPECIAL REPORT- Japan's homeless recruited for murky Fukushima clean-up
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/12/30/fukushima-workers-special-report-pix-grf-idUKL3N0K51ZU20131230
SENDAI, Japan, Dec. 30 (Reuters) - Seiji Sasa hits the train station in this northern Japanese city before dawn most mornings to prowl for homeless men.
He isn't a social worker. He's a recruiter. The men in Sendai Station are potential laborers that Sasa can dispatch to contractors in Japan's nuclear disaster zone for a bounty of $100 a head.
"This is how labor recruiters like me come in every day," Sasa says, as he strides past men sleeping on cardboard and clutching at their coats against the early winter cold.
It's also how Japan finds people willing to accept minimum wage for one of the most undesirable jobs in the industrialized world: working on the $35 billion, taxpayer-funded effort to clean up radioactive fallout across an area of northern Japan larger than Hong Kong.
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SENDAI, Japan, Dec. 30 (Reuters) - Seiji Sasa hits the train station in this northern Japanese city before dawn most mornings to prowl for homeless men.
He isn't a social worker. He's a recruiter. The men in Sendai Station are potential laborers that Sasa can dispatch to contractors in Japan's nuclear disaster zone for a bounty of $100 a head.
"This is how labor recruiters like me come in every day," Sasa says, as he strides past men sleeping on cardboard and clutching at their coats against the early winter cold.
It's also how Japan finds people willing to accept minimum wage for one of the most undesirable jobs in the industrialized world: working on the $35 billion, taxpayer-funded effort to clean up radioactive fallout across an area of northern Japan larger than Hong Kong.
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Un-fucking-believable.
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SPECIAL REPORT- Japan's homeless recruited for murky Fukushima clean-up (Original Post)
Cooley Hurd
Dec 2013
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Berlum
(7,044 posts)1. "Send in the expendable proles. Sneer" - Recruiters (R - Nipponese Style)
think
(11,641 posts)2. K&R /nt
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)3. K&R
TBF
(32,056 posts)4. I would say this is a new low for the capitalist crew -
but they'll likely find a way to top it as they always do.
Corruption Inc
(1,568 posts)5. It's a lot worse than that
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/japan-earthquake-and-tsunami-in/9084151/How-the-Yakuza-went-nuclear.html
"...Tepco has long been a scandal-ridden company, caught time and time again covering up data on safety lapses at their power plants, or doctoring film footage which showed fissures in pipes. How was the company able to get away with such long-standing behaviour? According to an explosive book recently published in Japan, they owe it to what the author, Tomohiko Suzuki, calls Japans nuclear mafia A conglomeration of corrupt politicians and bureaucrats, the shady nuclear industry, their lobbyists And at the centre of it all stands Japans actual mafia: the yakuza."
"...Tepco has long been a scandal-ridden company, caught time and time again covering up data on safety lapses at their power plants, or doctoring film footage which showed fissures in pipes. How was the company able to get away with such long-standing behaviour? According to an explosive book recently published in Japan, they owe it to what the author, Tomohiko Suzuki, calls Japans nuclear mafia A conglomeration of corrupt politicians and bureaucrats, the shady nuclear industry, their lobbyists And at the centre of it all stands Japans actual mafia: the yakuza."
oldhippie
(3,249 posts)6. There are homeless people in Japan?
That marvelous, homogeneous society?
Who knew?