The Japanese Mob Is Hiring Homeless People To Clean Up Fukushima

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 30, 2013 @10:44AM from the will-clean-radiation-for-food dept.

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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Re:Of course by Anonymous Coward · 2013-12-30 11:05 · Score: 5, Insightful

Private exploiters, with private profit.
Socialize the expenses, privatize the revenue.
Might as well use them at Tepco by mbone · 2013-12-30 11:13 · Score: 5, Insightful

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.
Re:Where's Zatoichi when you need him? by boristdog · 2013-12-30 11:15 · Score: 5, Funny

Packages of self-cooking noodles will be the next big thing out of Japan!