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."

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Plot of Ghost in the Shell 2nd Gig episode

[dbIII]

There was an SF TV series that had something almost exactly like this as the plot.

Re:How is this different from...

[Anonymous Coward]

the poor or uneducated people joining the army and fighting in the middle east?

The homeless in Japan are not white trash like the scum who volunteer
for the US military at a time when it is clear that the US is the aggressor,
not the defender.