Bags containing waste materials generated during decontamination works in the northeastern Japan town of Tomioka, adjacent to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Photo: Kyodo
Job for the desperate: How Fukushima clean-up workers form bottom of caste-like subcontractor system
Coming from across Japan to do a dirty, risky and undesirable job, the workers make up the very bottom of the nation’s murky, clean-up campaign, and are shunned by residents
Bags containing waste materials generated during decontamination works in the northeastern Japan town of Tomioka, adjacent to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Photo: Kyodo