Slashdot Mirror
The Japanese Mob Is Hiring Homeless People To Clean Up Fukushima
Daniel_Stuckey writes "Now, where do you find people willing to work in a fallout zone for minimum wage? According to a Reuters report, hidden within hundreds of contractors working on the cleanup effort are yakuza-controlled companies that pay headhunters to find homeless people willing to work inside the fallout zone. The sheer scale of the cleanup effort is staggering. While decontaminating the Fukushima plant itself will cost tens of billions and take years, there are also the surrounding areas in Fukushima prefecture, where cleanup costs are expected to top $30 billion. With Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco), the owner of the Fukushima plant, essentially nationalized at this point, Reuters reports that there's some $35 billion in taxpayer funds on the table for contractors."
Would they be interested in H-1B workers here in the US being sub-contracted to work at Fukushima?
And what pray tell will the Yakuza do with the radioactive waste?
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
Government contracts, with government oversight right?
Time Bomber the Book coming soon.
I only dislike it. What I hate is the random redirections to it.
I'm sure the Japanse military could make them an offer they ...
couldn't refuse
What an effective way to slaughter an entire class of people. I would have the UN investigate this.
If said by KudyardRipling, mod points would not have been wasted.
Would they be interested in H-1B workers here in the US being sub-contracted to work at Fukushima?
You may like to snide at those who work under the H-1B visa as "illegals", but at the very least, they do not work for the mobs, unlike what is happening right now in Japan, the land of the Yakuza !
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
What a swell way to dispose of the Dalits of Japan!
From the evidence to date, I think that the management of TEPCO would be improved by replacing every C level executive with a homeless person. It could hardly get worse.
Also of note: once food and lodging costs are deducted, the homeless people are working for less than minimum wage. The extra money being provided as compensation for the dangerous work is being pocketed by the people doing the "hiring."
the damn thing was just reported to be melting down, how in the hell can people be that close to it??
I was once told that an invisible man in the sky loved me and if I did not do exactly what he said no matter what he would show me that love by burning me for eternity.
Don't believe everything you hear...
it happens everywere, not only in japan.
were I live we call it "echo-mafia", working all aspects of toxic (and radiological/nuclear) wastages without all those legal hassles and expenses - for organized crime it nets a lot more than drugs nowadays.
Private sector doing something about homelessness in the long term. I bet Michele Bachmann is positively moist at the prospects for this sort of entrepreneurship in America
I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
What fallout? There was a containment breach at a nuclear reactor, not a nuclear bombing.
Mycologist Stamets has proposed remediation of radiation by fungi. Of course, his approach would still require lots of human workers within the zone.
The only reason this story, is a story, is that many Westerners do not understand the role of one's work in Japanese culture. Despite the criminal activity of their employers, many of these homeless people must feel some level of satisfaction from having something to do other than beg in a culture that most definitely despises begging of any type. To the Japanese, having something productive to do - kameseru - is as important as breathing.
If the emphasis of this story is that the mob is involved, so be it (although I imagine most Japanese would comment ".. and the sun rose today"). However, if they are outraged that the homeless are being exploited, they should save their pity for someone who would appreciate it.
come to japan and check out the homeless. some have decent setups (there is a semi-permanent "blue tarp" community in the western outskirts of yoyogi park), but most are not in such relatively enviable situations. even those with a stable makeshift home and community are quite likely not there by choice.
There was an SF TV series that had something almost exactly like this as the plot.
At the turn of the 20th Century Sinclair Lewis wrote about working conditions and corruption in the Chicago stockyards. Since then the US has allowed 12 million undocumented immigrants to work for minimum real wages, often without benefits or protections for which 'we' have understaffed federal agencies that can't adequately monitor all the businesses that pump out seasonally harvested food crops, let alone mass produced crap like salmonella laden peanut butter. But for some reason, we have to focus on what the Japanese are up to?!
Redirect your attention away from the Yakuza behind the curtain. There's plenty of local corruption to go around, no matter where you are.
Japanese Mob spills over in America!
The bigger, more shocking news here is that now there are homeless people in Japan! That was unheard of, even as recently as 5 years ago. Japan used to be a very egalitarian country, where the wage disparity between the lowest salary and the highest, within a company, was never more than 1:10. But the right-wing governments of the past years have worked to undo a lot of the social and taxation policies, and the results are already visible.
the poor or uneducated people joining the army and fighting in the middle east?
"Two birds, one stone"
I think japan need to announce robots challenge. Another kind of darpa. To help this jobs, and minimize the human need on dangerous area
Its pretty true. The poblem with slave minnions though is that Japan and other Asian countries get an edge by being able to cheaply (in more ways than one) offer themselves proudly to the state. its a race to tge bottom mentality as some day ifeuropeans and americans ever lack such self respect and dignity, there will be no benrfit to their slave efforts, though well meaning -ultimately basee on slave minded nationalist serfdom.
i.e all they wilk have achieved is global suffering fir cheap people.
I hope they survive and realize that its not just how we die but how we live. No true Buddhist would live on his knees like a nuclear cleaning minion.
But a confucian minion would. Frikin excessive OTT confucianism is the problem here. Dont let thesr muppets convince u theyre helping. in the long rub theyre destroying Japan and civilization and decent standard of living for the masses.
The globalist thank them dearly for supporting the elites.
Now, I don't know the exact numbers, so forgive my ballparking and correct where possible but:
Let's say Fukushima delivered power for 3 years to 250,000 people. Further, let's say each of those people used its power for 6 kWH per day.
That means that it delivered 1,642,500,000 kWH and cost $35,000,000,000 to clean up. That's an additional fee of $0.05 per kWH for cleanup. Not really that bad, I don't think.
How much does it cost to clean up the strip mining of 800,000 tons of coal?
Nice offtopic troll there. Not invisible, not in the sky, and you are forgiven for not doing exactly what he says (unless you're jewish or an Arab).
So yes, don't believe everything you hear.
JAPAN RADIATION POISONING AMERICA? New concerns hitting U.S. Pacific coast
Dec 30, 2013 WorldNetDaily
“The world is closely watching whether we can dismantle the Fukushima plant, including the issue of contaminated water,” said Prime Minister Abe. “Japanese government is determined to work hard to resolve the issue.”
This is quite a change from previous statements Prime Minister Abe has made. In a speech Sept. 7 in front of the International Olympic Committee in Buenos Aires, Prime Minister Abe stated categorically, “Let me assure you the situation (the contaminated groundwater problem) is under control.”
6 days later, Tokyo Electric disputed Prime Minister Abe’s claim at a meeting in Fukushima.
“We regard the current situation as NOT being under control,” said Tokyo Electric.
Tokyo was awarded the 2020 Olympic Games following Prime Minister Abe’s speech.
lol.
He is invisible because you cannot see him. That whole Jesus thing was a bizarre and very temporary manifestation with many conflicting theories as to what exactly he was even among the faithful.
He is everywhere so in the sky too. Also that was a metaphor as you well know.
You are only forgiven if you ask for it. And what exactly constitutes someone who goes to hell is likewise extremely vague and conflicted. I was told as a child the very strict version of that myth and was not limiting my sentiment to christianity. (because none of the religions have any more truth to them that each other - even the fringe ones)
But if it provides you comfort to believe in that nonsense then feel free to go ahead.
But likewise don't expect me to do anything other than find you crazy and point out how ridiculous your position is and use it is the best and most extreme example we have of how people believe in all sorts of crazy shit when told by some other crazy as shit person with no evidence whatsoever to back up their position.
Your ilk don't get the privilege of being nuts in public and have me not comment because you have not earned it. And considering how much harm and damage religion has caused over the years I would argue any example of it has not earned the right to exist and not be publicly vilified.
So I will use the sheer insanity of religion as a metaphor, example, counterpoint or any other literary device for whatever I deem fit. It deserves far worse than anything I could ever give it.
I think calling them crazy or crazy-as-shit is a bit uncalled for. Sure, some of them are, but most are not.
Just misguided, gullible, or naive.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
I'm 46, probably done having kids, and more than willing to sign up for dangerous work, but NOT for any less than what I'm making now, plus enough to pay for adequate life insurance so that when I finally do die from butt cancer, or undergo spontaneous fission, my family will be properly provided for.
Nonaggression works!