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Special Report: Help wanted in Fukushima: Low pay, high risks and gangsters via Reuters

Oct 25 (Reuters) – Tetsuya Hayashi went to Fukushima to take a job at ground zero of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. He lasted less than two weeks. Hayashi, 41, says he was recruited for a job monitoring the … Continue reading

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Special Report: Help wanted in Fukushima: Low pay, high risks and gangsters via Reuters

Oct 25 (Reuters) – Tetsuya Hayashi went to Fukushima to take a job at ground zero of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. He lasted less than two weeks. Hayashi, 41, says he was recruited for a job monitoring the … Continue reading

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How the Yakuza and Japan’s Nuclear Industry Learned to Love Each Other via The Atlantic Wire

By Jake Adelstein After the arrest of a yakuza boss for his alleged role in supplying workers to TEPCO’s Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Plant, we are learning the details of how Japan’s nuclear industry relied on organized crime. Since July of … Continue reading

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