People living rough in Japan are providing contractors in Japan’s nuclear disaster zone with an opportunity. <br /><br />Three years ago, a massive earthquake set off multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant. Today, the radiation clean up is behind schedule.<br /><br />The men in Sendai Station are potential labourers that can be dispatched for a bounty of around 70 euros a head.<br /><br />Shizuya Nishiyama says he’s scrubbed down radioactive hotspots in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant twice:<br /><br />“We’re an easy target for recruiters,” said the 57-year-old homeless man. “We turn up here with all our bags, wheeling them around and around the station and we’re easy to spot. Then they say to us: ‘are you looking for work? Are you hungry?’ And if we haven’t eaten anything, they then offer to find us a job,” said Nishiyama.<br /><br />Baptist pastor and leader of homeless support group, ‘Sendai Night Party Group’, Yasuhiro Aoki commented:<br /><br />“Without any information about potential dangers, many homeless people are just put into dormitories – and the fees for lodging and food automatically deducted from their wages. Then, at the end of the month, they’re left with no pay at all,” he said.
