THIS MEANS THAT TEPCO CAN AND WILL STOP COMPENSATION PAYMENTS TO ALMOST 60,000 RESIDENTS BY 2017- 2018, WHICH WILL FORCE MANY EVACUEES TO RETURN TO SOME OF THE WORST CONTAMINATED AREAS A STONE'S THROW FROM THE STILL-LEAKING DAIICHI PLANT.
MANY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO AFFORD TO DO OTHERWISE.
WELL KNOWN IN JAPAN, THE JAPANESE MAFIA, CALLED THE 'YAKUZA', HAS CORNERED THE MARKET ON DECONTAMINATING ALL THAT HAS BEEN AFFECTED BY THE FALLOUT THERE.
FROM THE DAIICHI FACILITY ITSELF TO THE SURROUNDING COUNTRYSIDE, MAFIA-HIRED WORKERS WITH LITTLE TO NO TRAINING AND LITTLE TO NO PROTECTIVE GEAR, TOIL UNDER THE WORST POSSIBLE CONDITIONS FOR LESS THAN THE JAPANESE MINIMUM WAGE, OFTEN OWING THE YAKUZA AT THE END OF EACH PAY PERIOD FOR THEIR HOUSING AND FOOD.
WHEN A WORKER REACHES HIS MAXIMUM LEVEL OF RADIATION EXPOSURE, IF HE IS EVEN BEING MONITORED, HE IS SIMPLY FIRED.
THE YAKUZA HIRES THE WORKERS.
THE YAKUZA CALLS THE SHOTS FROM THAT POINT ON.
WE WILL EXAMINE HOW THIS HAPPENED AND WHY THE ABE ADMINISTRATION IS DOING NOTHING TO STOP THIS MAFIA MONOPOLY.
Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters
Friday, June 12, 2015
"Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held the 37th meeting of the Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters at the Prime Minister’s Office.
At the meeting, discussion was held on the draft revision of the policy for accelerating Fukushima's reconstruction from the nuclear disaster.
At the meeting, discussion was held on the draft revision of the policy for accelerating Fukushima's reconstruction from the nuclear disaster.
Based on the discussion, the Prime Minister said,
“There is no revitalization of Japan without the reconstruction of Fukushima. It is our responsibility to ensure that the over 110,000 people who are still living as evacuees as a result of the nuclear disaster return to their hometowns as quickly as possible and start new lives.
In accordance with the approval on this occasion, we will accelerate initiatives for making the necessary preparations such that the lifting of evacuation orders can be realized, at the very latest within 6 years from the disaster. "
"The 7,000 residents of Nahara, a town in one of the seven Fukushima municipalities completely evacuated following the nuclear crisis, will be able to return home permanently from September 5.
How many residents of the settlement, which lies just 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of the plant, will return, however, remains unclear as many still have mixed feelings, according to a recent poll.
The globally-accepted limit for radiation absorption is 1 mSv per year, although the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says anything up to 20 mSv per year poses no immediate danger to human health.
Critics argue that only residential areas are being cleaned in the short-term, and the worst-hit parts of the countryside are being omitted or are impossible to be decontaminated, like dense forests and mountains.
Even after nearly thirty years, the 30-kilometer area around the crippled Chernobyl plant in Ukraine remains an exclusion zone.
[ BUT ABE WANTS TO MOVE PEOPLE BACK TO WITHIN 12 MILES OF DAIICHI NUCLEAR FACILITY EVEN THOUGH JAPAN'S "DECONTAMINATION" HAS BEEN SHOWN BY INDEPENDENT TESTS TO HAVE NOT DECONTAMINATED TO SAFE LEVELS!
EVEN TOKYO STILL SHOWS HIGH READINGS IN SEVERAL AREAS AND THAT IS OVER 200 MILES TO THE SOUTH!
In accordance with the approval on this occasion, we will accelerate initiatives for making the necessary preparations such that the lifting of evacuation orders can be realized, at the very latest within 6 years from the disaster. "
"The 7,000 residents of Nahara, a town in one of the seven Fukushima municipalities completely evacuated following the nuclear crisis, will be able to return home permanently from September 5.
How many residents of the settlement, which lies just 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of the plant, will return, however, remains unclear as many still have mixed feelings, according to a recent poll.
The globally-accepted limit for radiation absorption is 1 mSv per year, although the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says anything up to 20 mSv per year poses no immediate danger to human health.
Critics argue that only residential areas are being cleaned in the short-term, and the worst-hit parts of the countryside are being omitted or are impossible to be decontaminated, like dense forests and mountains.
Even after nearly thirty years, the 30-kilometer area around the crippled Chernobyl plant in Ukraine remains an exclusion zone.
[ BUT ABE WANTS TO MOVE PEOPLE BACK TO WITHIN 12 MILES OF DAIICHI NUCLEAR FACILITY EVEN THOUGH JAPAN'S "DECONTAMINATION" HAS BEEN SHOWN BY INDEPENDENT TESTS TO HAVE NOT DECONTAMINATED TO SAFE LEVELS!
EVEN TOKYO STILL SHOWS HIGH READINGS IN SEVERAL AREAS AND THAT IS OVER 200 MILES TO THE SOUTH!
SENDING PEOPLE BACK WILL CERTAINLY BE LIKE HANDING SOME A DEATH SENTENCE.]
Mycle Schneider, a Paris-based independent international energy and nuclear policy consultant, told DW that if the remaining dose levels were indeed between 1 and 3 mSv PER HOUR on average this would exceed the 1 mSv [PER YEAR] limit applied in most of countries.
"As there is no threshold, meaning there is no safe level of exposure, the health risk to people would be significantly increased."
The nuclear expert also slammed much of Japan's decontamination activities, referring to them as "helplessly inefficient."
To explain his view, he said that while high pressure water would be applied to cleaning surfaces like parking lots, for instance, the used water wouldn't be recovered, thus pushing contamination from one spot to the next.
To explain his view, he said that while high pressure water would be applied to cleaning surfaces like parking lots, for instance, the used water wouldn't be recovered, thus pushing contamination from one spot to the next.
In addition, Schneider pointed out that contamination levels were not static.
"The mountains and forests that cannot even be vaguely decontaminated, will serve as a permanent source of new contamination, each rainfall washing out radiation and bringing it down from the mountains to the flat lands."
AS REUTERS REPORTED IN MAY:
"The mountains and forests that cannot even be vaguely decontaminated, will serve as a permanent source of new contamination, each rainfall washing out radiation and bringing it down from the mountains to the flat lands."
AS REUTERS REPORTED IN MAY:
"Under the existing compensation scheme, the utility pays each evacuee about $1,000 a month for emotional distress. The assistance is to be cut off a year after the government lifts an evacuation order.
The draft plan calls for extending the stipend for all evacuees until March 2017 so that most residents can receive the same compensation regardless of when the government lifts its order.
Tokyo Electric also provides compensation to those who lost their jobs and partially covers the value of homes in the affected areas, depending on the length of their forced evacuation.
Japan began encouraging residents to return to homes 20 km (12 miles) from the plant last year, but many residents have mixed feelings about returning to abandoned towns."
LIED TO AND MISINFORMED FROM THE DAY OF THE EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI
LIED TO AND MISINFORMED FROM THE DAY OF THE EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI
The victimization of the Fukushima residents, and refugees has been intense.
[PLEASE NOTE: THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN IN 2012]
As the nuclear plants melted down over the course of a week following the 3/11 earthquake they were lied to repeatedly to avoid having them “panic.”
While dwelling in the uncertainty of those lies, they were exposed to radiation that was spewing from the plant, and falling-out from above after a series of hydrogen explosions blew reactor building after reactor building apart, creating huge plumes of radionuclides.
It has since come out that information about the trajectory and danger of these plumes was deliberately held from them, again to prevent them from panicking.
[PLEASE NOTE: THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN IN 2012]
As the nuclear plants melted down over the course of a week following the 3/11 earthquake they were lied to repeatedly to avoid having them “panic.”
While dwelling in the uncertainty of those lies, they were exposed to radiation that was spewing from the plant, and falling-out from above after a series of hydrogen explosions blew reactor building after reactor building apart, creating huge plumes of radionuclides.
It has since come out that information about the trajectory and danger of these plumes was deliberately held from them, again to prevent them from panicking.
Many of these same people lost family or loved ones to the earthquake and the tsunami, but their mourning and losses were delayed because of the ongoing threat of nuclear radiation.
They were denied closure for their losses having to maintain their focus on the present and to try to ascertain the current dangers that faced them and their families.
Huge numbers of them were then evacuated from their homes, now contaminated with the radiation that they were not informed of to stem their possible panic.
They were denied closure for their losses having to maintain their focus on the present and to try to ascertain the current dangers that faced them and their families.
Huge numbers of them were then evacuated from their homes, now contaminated with the radiation that they were not informed of to stem their possible panic.
Now these people live as refugees.
Many have come to grasp that they will not be returning to live in their homes again, although they have not been given the respect of being told this directly by those in authority who certainly understand this to be the case.
Living in limbo, the traumas and stresses of broken lives cannot give way to the process of healing [nor can they] move toward a new stability for themselves and their families.
The communities in which they lived will never be whole, or in proximity of one another, again. For many this is the community that they, and generations of ancestors, have lived in for centuries. They are, and they feel, isolated and abandoned.
Many have come to grasp that they will not be returning to live in their homes again, although they have not been given the respect of being told this directly by those in authority who certainly understand this to be the case.
Living in limbo, the traumas and stresses of broken lives cannot give way to the process of healing [nor can they] move toward a new stability for themselves and their families.
The communities in which they lived will never be whole, or in proximity of one another, again. For many this is the community that they, and generations of ancestors, have lived in for centuries. They are, and they feel, isolated and abandoned.
TEPCO and the government of Japan knew that the three plants were melting down almost immediately.
The whole world, but primarily the people whose lives and families were directly uprooted by these events, were deliberately deceived.
So we have an immense cohort of people who have been irradiated, lied to, and permanently (though not explicitly) removed from their homes and communities for the rest of their lives.
They are victims of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, separately from being victims of the Great Tohoku Earthquake and tsunami.
Their lives have been pulled apart and they are now scattered, some families living in separate places from each other—parents separated from children, spouses separated from each other—and left to sort these multiple traumas out for themselves.
This [has all happened] as many are still in mourning for dead relatives and friends swept out to sea.
Their lives have been pulled apart and they are now scattered, some families living in separate places from each other—parents separated from children, spouses separated from each other—and left to sort these multiple traumas out for themselves.
This [has all happened] as many are still in mourning for dead relatives and friends swept out to sea.
THE LIE THAT ANXIETY HAS KILLED MORE THAN RADIATION EFFECTS EVER WILL
Here was the first, and most profound, victimization.
For many it was accompanied by discrimination by people living in areas where the refugees have relocated, treating them as though they carry contagion: cars being vandalized, children being bullied in new schools.
It is an immense and crushing burden to bear.
For many it was accompanied by discrimination by people living in areas where the refugees have relocated, treating them as though they carry contagion: cars being vandalized, children being bullied in new schools.
It is an immense and crushing burden to bear.
But now, even more is being added: the Fukushima victims are being victimized again.
Almost from the start, and now reaching a loud chorus, are the claims both here in Japan and also abroad that the unrealistic fears and anxieties of these victims are the real cause of their physical and mental health problems.
[Such statements] follow on the work of those who minimize the radiological impact of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster claiming that depression and anxiety took a much larger toll on the affected population than radiation.
Recent statements [VICTIMIZE THE VICTIMS AGAIN] like that by National Public Radio (USA) correspondent Richard Harris who told his nationwide audience this month that “trauma, not radiation” is the key concern in Japan, the people of Fukushima have been fed a steady diet of self-blame.
The pacifying statement that most outraged local citizens was in a public presentation by Dr. Shunichi Yamashita who ended his presentation on the threats of radiation to a community meeting with the statement that:
“Conclusion: A small radiation is good for your health
There are two sides to radiation.
Small dose: Like an angel’s smile (even at 50 millisieverts/year)
Large dose in short time: Like a devil’s violence
From now on, the number of cancer patients in Fukushima will decrease.
Food items with a small amount of radiation will fetch ‘premium.’
Fukushima Prefecture will be the Number One health land in Japan, and people will flock to Fukushima.
Public outrage over the comments of Dr. Yamashita led [to his] resignation from his position as a radiological health safety risk advisor to the Fukushima prefectural government.
Yamashita was later to explain that the people of Fukushima were suffering from “radiophobia.”
In testimony before the Japanese Diet upper house Budget Committee recently lawmakers heard the story of schoolchildren in a Fukushima school who were publicly humiliated for their “anxiety.”
These students who “refuse to drink milk in school lunches were called to the front of the classroom by their teacher and told they were not Fukushima residents if they dared refuse drinking milk from Fukushima.”
The push to minimize the impact of radiation from Fukushima in the press in the lead up to the first anniversary of the events has been very noticeable in the US.
A recent article in Scientific American explained to readers that, “Heart disease and depression are likely to claim more lives than radiation after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident, experts say.”
“In the weeks following the March 11th disaster the estimated exposure dose for children was abnormally elevated, leading the Japanese government to begin testing to deduce the amount of radioactive iodine concentrated in the thyroid of over 1000 children shorty after the accident. Many parents demanded the tests, drawing parallels with the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, after which locals reported thyroid disorders, a problem sometimes associated with radiation exposure.
The Japanese Yomiuri report shows that the government’s Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters did not fulfill requests from the Cabinet’s Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan (NSC) to conduct further testing on the internal radioactive exposure of children, due to fears of how the public may react to the inspections.”
I WOULD ALSO SUGGEST THAT, HAD THEY DONE SUCH EARLY TESTING, THE RESULTS WOULD HAVE SHOWN THAT TEPCO, OF WHICH THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT OWNS 51% , WAS LIABLE FOR THE DAMAGE DONE TO THOSE CHILDREN BY THE RADIATION FROM DAIICHI.
IT WOULD ALSO HAVE SHOWN THE WORLD THAT PERHAPS TOKYO IS NOT A SAFE PLACE TO HOLD THE OLYMPICS.
"Now, a year after the disaster began, with the government declaring the crisis “over” and proclaiming that the corium that it cannot locate or determine the temperature or condition of is in “cold shutdown,” the attention of the apologists for the nuclear industry has turned to framing any health problems caused by the crisis as the fault of the victims and antinuclear critics.
This strategy is clearly designed to assuage public anxiety about nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima meltdowns.
They feel it is necessary to press their case and demean their opponent’s intelligence and views. The effects that this strategy has on the victims in Fukushima can simply be attributed, as are their distresses as a whole, to irrational anxiety.
This strategy is clearly designed to assuage public anxiety about nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima meltdowns.
They feel it is necessary to press their case and demean their opponent’s intelligence and views. The effects that this strategy has on the victims in Fukushima can simply be attributed, as are their distresses as a whole, to irrational anxiety.
Just as for those who suffered radiation exposures from nuclear testing in the dozens of communities around the world, and those who suffered from direct nuclear attack in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, these exposures are simply the initial victimization.
In defen[ding] nuclear technology, both weapons and power plants, keeping the health effects of the victims out of the public eye is so valuable a goal that the repeated victimization of these hibakusha is business as usual."
THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY HAS TRADED HUMAN LIVES FOR PROFIT, AND THEY HAVE COVERED UP THE REAL DANGERS OF EVEN LOW-LEVEL RADIATION SINCE THE MANHATTAN PROJECT, SINCE THE FIRST TESTS OF THE ATOMIC BOMB, SINCE MAN FIRST USED A NUCLEAR DEVICE AGAINST FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS.
THE ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE TASK OF SAFELY STORING ALL NUCLEAR WASTE IS, ALONE, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS THE WORLD'S POPULATION SHOULD BE AWARE OF.
THERE IS SIMPLY NO WAY TO STORE SO MUCH WASTE FOR THE REQUIRED THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
AND THERE IS NO WAY TO KEEP ANY NUCLEAR POWER PLANT FROM SLOWLY "LEAKING". THERE ARE NO KNOWN MATERIALS THEY CAN USE TO MAKE THOSE FACILITIES LEAK-PROOF. NO MATERIAL IS A MATCH FOR IONIZING RADIATION FOR LONG.
THERE IS NO SAFE WAY TO MINE FOR THE RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS NEEDED BY THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY.
EVERY MINE HAS BEEN AND WILL BE AN ENVIRONMENTAL CESSPOOL OF CONTAMINANTS AND DEADLY TOXINS.
THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION ADMITTED OVER 60 YEARS AGO THAT NO RADIATIONS IS SAFE WHEN IT ENTERS A HUMAN BODY/
THERE WAS NO SANE NOR VALID REASON WHY WE EVER NEEDED THE FIRST NUCLEAR POWER PLANT...UNLESS YOU CONSIDER HOW HANDY THEY CAN BE TO ENRICH URANIUM FOR MILITARY WEAPONS.
THE JAPANESE MAFIA, THE YAKUZA
“[T]he nuclear business-industrial-political and media complex in Japan known as the ‘nuclear mafia’ … [the nuclear industry] is a black hole of criminal malfeasance, incompetence, and corruption’ …. The government tacitly recognises their existence, and they are classified, designated and regulated.
Yakuza make their money from extortion, blackmail, construction, real estate, collection services, financial market manipulation, protection rackets, fraud and a labyrinth of front companies including labour dispatch services and private detective agencies.
They do the work that no one else will do or find the workers for jobs no one wants …. The Fukushima plant is located in the turf of the Sumiyoshi-kai, which is the second largest yakuza group in Japan with roughly 12,000 members” Undercover Japanese reporter, Tomohiko Suzuki, author of the book "The Yakuza and the Nuclear Industry”, compares the Yakuza with Tepco:
“Yakuza may be a plague on society … but they don’t ruin the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and irradiate the planet out of sheer greed and incompetence.”
Suzuki points out that “Japan’s nuclear mafia … [is a] conglomeration of corrupt politicians and bureaucrats, the shady nuclear industry, their lobbyists” with the Yakuza at the center.
Suzuki points out that “Japan’s nuclear mafia … [is a] conglomeration of corrupt politicians and bureaucrats, the shady nuclear industry, their lobbyists” with the Yakuza at the center.
Is Suzuki implying that the Yakuza run the Nuclear Mafia?
It is certainly true that Tepco could not fulfill a nuclear workforce without them.
A new report from the venerable non governmental organization, Citizens Nuclear Information Center (CNIC), in Tokyo, highlights the FNPP worker issue.
One whistleblower reported that in years past:
“Worker accidents are usually covered up inside the nuclear plant. Even if workers suddenly fall ill, they are not allowed to call an ambulance. In my case, after having been left unattended for three hours, I was taken to hospital in a colleague’s car. I therefore suffered aftereffects later and became physically handicapped.
Of all accidents occurring in the nuclear power station, 90% were concealed.”
"RETURN TO FUKUSHIMA: A FOUR-PART INVESTIGATIVE SERIES:
Gangsters and ‘slaves’: The people cleaning up Fukushima"
FEB. 2014
"The subcontracting system and high demand for labor that gave rise to 'nuclear gypsies' have been a boon for one group: organized crime.
The Yakuza is one of the largest criminal organizations in the world. Enmeshed in right-wing politics, the Japanese mafia often target low-skill occupations.
“The Yakuza have, historically, been deeply embedded in the structure of the construction industry,” explained Takeshi Katsura, a laborer who also helps workers exploited by the Japanese mafia.
Finding thousands of bodies to fill some of the most undesirable jobs in the developed world, particularly in a country with an aging population and growing labor shortage, is tough the legal way. And many of the estimated 50 Yakuza gangs in Fukushima have leapt to the task of supplying workers to the labor-intensive effort to decontaminate the prefecture.
“To quickly gather 4,000, 5,000 decontamination workers in Fukushima, you need to do it the traditional way,” said Katsura. “Using the Yakuza.”
The decontamination industry is particularly appealing for criminals, because of the extra government-funded $100-a-day in danger pay per worker.
And Fukushima laborers in the grip of organized crime are even less likely to receive their fair share.
And Fukushima laborers in the grip of organized crime are even less likely to receive their fair share.
“The government says it will pay $100 a day, but I initially got $20,” said Sato, a worker who was lured to Fukushima by the government’s promise of extra cash.
“The contractors and subcontractors took the remaining $80.”
When Sato complained, he was told his contract had changed, and that he now owed money for food and lodging. He later found out that the president of his contracting company was a former leader of the Fukushima branch of a right-wing group.
Sato was lucky. Others who complain and quit like him have faced violent retribution.
“I’ve had workers tell me that they've been beat up and been told, ‘I’ll kill you,’” said Katsura. “Threatened with, ‘You know what will happen to you.’”
In January, October and November of last year, Japanese gangsters were arrested on charges of illegally recruiting workers for the government-funded cleanup, reported Reuters.
In the October case, the recruiters rounded up homeless men at a train station and sent them to work for less than minimum wage.
The workers were at the bottom of a complex ladder that led all the way to Obayashi Corp, one of the 20 major contractors heading the decontamination effort, and the second largest construction company in Japan.
The resulting network of contractors and subcontractors is labyrinthine, making it almost impossible to track the taxpayer dollars siphoned into the cleanup.
Reuters counted 733 companies performing work for the Ministry of Environment in the 10 most contaminated towns and nearby highway.
Reuters found 56 subcontractors listed on environment ministry contracts worth a total of $2.5 billion in the most radiated areas of Fukushima that would have been barred from traditional public works because they had not been vetted by the construction ministry.
Reuters found 56 subcontractors listed on environment ministry contracts worth a total of $2.5 billion in the most radiated areas of Fukushima that would have been barred from traditional public works because they had not been vetted by the construction ministry.
Government-run decontamination efforts are underway in 11 cities, with at least 20,000 people involved in the clean-up, according to the environment ministry.
In the mammoth task, workers try to remove tons of contaminated surface soil, plants and leaves, placing them in bags or in one of the nearly 800 temporary outdoor storage facilities that have been set up across the disaster zone.
[AS THE TEA ROOM PREVIOUSLY SHOWED, MANY SCHOOL YARDS ARE USED FOR THESE TEMPORARY OUTDOOR WASTE DUMPS AND CHILDREN PLAY NEAR PILES OF PLASTIC BAGS FULL OF CONTAMINATED SOIL.]
TEPCO IS WELL AWARE THAT THE YAKUZA IS PROVIDING UNTRAINED, OFTEN HOMELESS WORKERS.
"Critics say the subcontracting system allows TEPCO to turn a blind eye to these abuses and wash its hands of worker safety.
"Critics say the subcontracting system allows TEPCO to turn a blind eye to these abuses and wash its hands of worker safety.
Subcontracted workers endured worse conditions than those directly hired by TEPCO, said a former worker called 'Tanaka', who asked not to be identified by his real name, like all the workers interviewed by America Tonight, for fear of retribution.
For example, TEPCO employees received charcoal filters, while workers at his subcontracting company only got dust filters, like those you'd buy at a convenience store.
For example, TEPCO employees received charcoal filters, while workers at his subcontracting company only got dust filters, like those you'd buy at a convenience store.
“TEPCO is God,” Tanaka said. “The main contractors are kings, and we are slaves.”
“When they needed people, they used subcontractors to hire us,” said Tanaka. “When our services were no longer needed, I’m among the victims who are thrown away.”
"The 2011 law that regulates decontamination put control under the environment ministry, the largest spending program ever managed by the 10-year-old agency. The same law also effectively loosened controls on bidders, making it possible for firms to win radiation removal contracts without the basic disclosure and certification required for participating in public works such as road construction.
They had no construction ministry registration, no listed phone number or website, and Reuters could not find a basic corporate registration disclosing ownership.
There was also no record of the firms in the database of Japan's largest credit research firm, Teikoku Databank.
Responsibility for monitoring the hiring, safety records and suitability of hundreds of small firms involved in Fukushima's decontamination rests with the top contractors, including Kajima Corp, Taisei Corp and Shimizu Corp, ministry officials said.
"In reality, major contractors manage each work site," said Hide Motonaga, deputy director of the radiation clean-up division of the environment ministry.
SO WHY DOESN'T THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT STOP THIS?
"If you started looking at every single person, the project wouldn't move forward. You wouldn't get a tenth of the people you need," said Yukio Suganuma, president of Aisogo Service, a construction company that was hired in 2012 to clean up radioactive fallout from streets in the town of Tamura.
Japan's construction companies cannot afford to keep a large payroll and dispatching temporary workers to construction sites is prohibited.
As a result, smaller firms step into the gap, promising workers in exchange for a cut of their wages.
THESE SMALLER FIRMS ARE ALSO AWARE THAT THE WORKERS ON DECONTAMINATION SITES LIKELY COME FROM THE JAPANESE MAFIA.
THEY, TOO, SIMPLY LOOK THE OTHER WAY.
"There are many unknown entities getting involved in decontamination projects," said Igarashi, a former advisor to ex-Prime Minister Naoto Kan. "There needs to be a thorough check on what companies are working on what, and when.
I think it's probably completely lawless if the top contractors are not thoroughly checking."
I think it's probably completely lawless if the top contractors are not thoroughly checking."
The Ministry of Environment announced on Thursday that work on the most contaminated sites would take two to three years longer than the original March 2014 deadline. That means many of the more than 60,000 who lived in the area before the disaster will remain unable to return home until six years after the disaster.
Earlier this month, Abe, who pledged his government would "take full responsibility for the rebirth of Fukushima" boosted the budget for decontamination to $35 billion, including funds to create a facility to store radioactive soil and other waste near the wrecked nuclear plant.
ABE NEEDS TO MAKE A GOOD IMPRESSION FOR THE 2020 OLYMPICS.
THAT'S ABE'S MAIN GOAL, THAT AND MAKING THINGS EASY FOR NUCLEAR INDUSTRY.
WHAT A CONFLICT OF INTEREST!
THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT OWNS PART OF THE TEPCO FACILITIES, SO IT'S LITTLE WONDER THEY'D ALLOW CUTTING ANY CORNERS TO SAVE A DIME AND TURN A BLIND EYE TO THE INFILTRATION BY THE YAKUZA.
ABE NEEDS TO MAKE A GOOD IMPRESSION FOR THE 2020 OLYMPICS.
THAT'S ABE'S MAIN GOAL, THAT AND MAKING THINGS EASY FOR NUCLEAR INDUSTRY.
WHAT A CONFLICT OF INTEREST!
THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT OWNS PART OF THE TEPCO FACILITIES, SO IT'S LITTLE WONDER THEY'D ALLOW CUTTING ANY CORNERS TO SAVE A DIME AND TURN A BLIND EYE TO THE INFILTRATION BY THE YAKUZA.
‘DON'T ASK QUESTIONS'
Seiji Sasa, 67, a broad-shouldered former wrestling promoter, was photographed by undercover police recruiting homeless men at the Sendai train station to work in the nuclear cleanup.
The workers were then handed off through a chain of companies reporting up to Obayashi, as part of a $1.4 million contract to decontaminate roads in Fukushima, police say.
"I don't ask questions; that's not my job," Sasa said in an interview with Reuters. "I just find people and send them to work. I send them and get money in exchange. That's it. I don't get involved in what happens after that."
Sasa was arrested in November and released without being charged.
Sasa was arrested in November and released without being charged.
Police were after his client, Mitsunori Nishimura, a local Inagawa-kai gangster. Nishimura housed workers in cramped dorms on the edge of Sendai and skimmed an estimated $10,000 of public funding intended for their wages each month, police say.
In the incident that prompted his arrest, Nishimura placed his workers with Shinei Clean, a company with about 15 employees based on a winding farm road south of Sendai.
Police turned up there to arrest Shinei's president, Toshiaki Osada, after a search of his office, according to Tatsuya Shoji, who is both Osada's nephew and a company manager. Shinei had sent dump trucks to sort debris from the disaster.
"Everyone is involved in sending workers," said Shoji. "I guess we just happened to get caught this time."
The trail from Shinei led police to a slightly larger neighboring company with about 30 employees, Fujisai Couken. Fujisai says it was under pressure from a larger contractor, Raito Kogyo, to provide workers for Fukushima.
"If you don't get involved (with gangs), you're not going to get enough workers," said Sayama, Fujisai's general manager. "The construction industry is 90 percent run by gangs."
Raito Kogyo, a top-tier subcontractor to Obayashi, has about 300 workers in decontamination projects around Fukushima and owns subsidiaries in both Japan and the United States.
"We can only check on lower-tier subcontractors if they are honest with us," said Tomoyuki Yamane, head of marketing for Raito.
Raito and Obayashi were not accused of any wrongdoing and were not penalized."
MEANWHILE, WITH 2020 AND THE OLYMPICS FAST APPROACHING, ABE KNOWS THE WORLD WILL BE FOCUSED THEN ON JAPAN.
MEANWHILE, WITH 2020 AND THE OLYMPICS FAST APPROACHING, ABE KNOWS THE WORLD WILL BE FOCUSED THEN ON JAPAN.
HE "CAN'T AFFORD" TO CARE WHERE WORKERS COME FROM, AND OBVIOUSLY, DOES NOT CARE WHO SUPPLIES THEM.
“TEPCO’s involvement with antisocial forces and their inability to filter them out of the work-place is a national security issue … Nuclear energy shouldn’t be in the hands of the yakuza. They’re gamblers and an intelligent person doesn’t want them to have atomic dice to play with.” – Japanese Senator
“Bring us the living dead. People no one will miss.” – Fukushima official’s request to Yakuza
The exploitation of labor at nuclear plants depends on the tools of social engineering, of government, mass media and schools. This is the hidden and shameful side of today’s materialist society and belies our complicity in a criminalized culture.
Inefficient and corrupt employment practices at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) are prolonging the disaster. Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) outsources 90 percent of the work to subcontractors, mainly utilizing Japan’s criminal syndicates, “the Yakuza.” Japan is still a middle class society and most people will not volunteer for nuclear work. Japan risks running out of workers who have not exceeded their legal radiation limits.
Tepco’s relationship with the Yakuza is a cesspool of corruption from the highest to the lowest levels in its organization. “A senior National Police Agency officer, speaking on grounds of anonymity said, ‘TEPCO has a history of doing business with the yakuza that is far deeper than just using their labor’ ”
he Yakuza has 86,000 members in Japan, of the 22 major organizations the “Yamaguchi” has almost half of all members.
The Yakuza are:“[c]riminal trade associations legally recognized by the Japanese government … They exist out in the open. The Japanese government regulates them and there are laws restricting their behavior but as criminal organizations themselves they are not banned. It is very difficult for the police to do an investigation that goes all the way up to the top. It’s problems within the Japanese law itself. There’s no plea bargaining, very limited wire tapping, no witness protection program … no undercover work allowed. The Japanese police are never able to destroy the Yakuza”
"The Abe government’s new timetable, adopted on June 12, 2015, calls for accelerating the pace of this cleanup with a “concentrated decontamination effort” over the next two years.
Across the entire evacuation zone, workers have already filled 2.9 million [PLASTIC] bags, which will be stored for at least the next 30 years at toxic waste sites that the government is building inside the zone.
To summarize the future of Japan’s nuclear decontamination program, perhaps the best commentary was issued by Greenpeace.
“Decontamination efforts are, many times, missing the government’s targets. Massive amounts of highly radioactive water flow into the ocean from the reactor site every day. The location of molten reactor cores in Units 1-3 remains unknown – which is a problem that requires massive amounts of cooling water every day to minimize the risk of another major radiation release.”
“Those who created the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe know that their nuclear power plants have no place in a modern Japan. And they are fighting as hard as they can to stop clean energy progress and shore up their dirty-energy-based profits.”
“But, for the people of Japan, a majority of whom oppose any nuclear restart, there are massive opportunities on the horizon for a truly safe and clean future. And we, at Greenpeace, will stand with them – against the onslaught of the nuclear village – to ensure that the clean, renewable energy future becomes a reality.”
While the tea room most assuredly sympathizes with Japan's people and regrets that they are living this nightmare, I also know that the PEOPLE outnumber the government 'officials', and the police, and the military, and the entire nuclear industry.
UNTIL THE PEOPLE DEMAND CHANGE AND A SOLUTION, UNTIL THE PEOPLE DECIDE THEY ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT PUT UP WITH ONGOING NUCLEAR GENOCIDE, THEY WILL SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES.
THE SAME APPLIES TO ALL OF US.
NUCLEAR ENERGY IS NOT NECESSARY, IS NOT CHEAP ENERGY, IS NOT SAFE IN ANY WAY, AND SHOULD BE PHASED OUT ALL ACROSS THE GLOBE.
ONE DAY SOON,PERHAPS, ONE OF THOSE UNTRAINED, MENTALLY CHALLENGED, MAFIA-HIRED WORKERS AT DAIICHI WILL SCREW UP, WILL DO THE WRONG THING AND MAYBE MAKE THE PEOPLE OF JAPAN AND THE REST OF US WISH WE HAD GONE UP IN THE BOMBS AT NAGASAKI OR HIROSHIMA.
I WOULD RATHER BE INSTANTLY VAPORIZED THAN SLOWLY MURDERED WHILE WATCHING EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING AROUND ME DIE A HORRIBLE, AGONIZINGLY SLOW DEATH.
WHEN THE NEXT MUSHROOM CLOUD RISES OVER JAPAN, IT WILL SIGNAL THE UNLEASHING OF UNCONTROLLABLE NUCLEAR HELL ON ALL OF US.
BOTH ABE AND TEPCO OFFICIALS ARE CRIMINALLY INSANE AND HAVE MURDEROUS INTENT TO ALLOW THE CLEANUP OF A HUGE NUCLEAR PLANT IN THE HANDS OF THE JAPANESE MAFIA.
UNTIL THE PEOPLE DEMAND CHANGE AND A SOLUTION, UNTIL THE PEOPLE DECIDE THEY ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT PUT UP WITH ONGOING NUCLEAR GENOCIDE, THEY WILL SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES.
THE SAME APPLIES TO ALL OF US.
NUCLEAR ENERGY IS NOT NECESSARY, IS NOT CHEAP ENERGY, IS NOT SAFE IN ANY WAY, AND SHOULD BE PHASED OUT ALL ACROSS THE GLOBE.
ONE DAY SOON,PERHAPS, ONE OF THOSE UNTRAINED, MENTALLY CHALLENGED, MAFIA-HIRED WORKERS AT DAIICHI WILL SCREW UP, WILL DO THE WRONG THING AND MAYBE MAKE THE PEOPLE OF JAPAN AND THE REST OF US WISH WE HAD GONE UP IN THE BOMBS AT NAGASAKI OR HIROSHIMA.
I WOULD RATHER BE INSTANTLY VAPORIZED THAN SLOWLY MURDERED WHILE WATCHING EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING AROUND ME DIE A HORRIBLE, AGONIZINGLY SLOW DEATH.
WHEN THE NEXT MUSHROOM CLOUD RISES OVER JAPAN, IT WILL SIGNAL THE UNLEASHING OF UNCONTROLLABLE NUCLEAR HELL ON ALL OF US.
BOTH ABE AND TEPCO OFFICIALS ARE CRIMINALLY INSANE AND HAVE MURDEROUS INTENT TO ALLOW THE CLEANUP OF A HUGE NUCLEAR PLANT IN THE HANDS OF THE JAPANESE MAFIA.
THEY SHOULD BE TRIED FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.
SO SHOULD THE NUCLEAR "REGULATORS".
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