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Fukushima worker exploitation

2013-10-24 2 Dailymotion

NO REPORTER NARRATION<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) UNNAMED 55-YEAR-OLD WORKER AT FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI PLANT SAYING:<br/> <br />"I was told to clean up tsunami rubble."<br/> <br />"But then I got told to go to '1F'"<br/> <br />"I didn't know what '1F' was but when I looked it up I realized it meant the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant"<br/> <br />On March 11 a tsunami wrecked the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Fears of radiation forced 150,000 people to flee.<br/> <br />Now 6,000 workers remain to keep the plant under control. But many suffer from exploitation, low pay and high radiation.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) UNNAMED 55-YEAR-OLD WORKER AT FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI PLANT SAYING:<br/> <br />"At first, I didn't have a place to live. I didn't have anything."<br/> <br />"It was like a bad comic book."<br/> <br />"They kept me in prefab warehouse. Somewhere like where you keep tools."<br/> <br />"I was there for around 3 weeks with one sleeping bag."<br/> <br />"I was told I could just work in normal clothes. But I arrived and was put into a f

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