Shame! Japanese Enterprises Cheat Foreign Trainees to Fukushima “Dyeing” Japanese netizens can’t stand it anymore

"If I knew that the place of work was Fukushima, I would definitely not promise to go. The working environment there filled me with fear."

Recently, an intern from Vietnam revealed to Japanese media that he was forced to engage in the nuclear pollution removal of the Tokyo Electric Power Fukushima Daiichi accident.

According to the “Nihon Keizai Shimbun” website reported on March 7th, a construction company located in Iwate prefecture used Japanese government’s relevant systems for foreign technology trainees to introduce laborers from Vietnam. However, some workers were transferred to Fukushima as "technical interns" to carry out nuclear waste disposal.

According to Japanese media, the Vietnamese interns came to Japan in September 2015. The work contracted with the construction company is "construction machinery, demolition, and civil engineering." However, after he finished the one-month study, he was forced to participate in dozens of decontamination jobs in the Fukushima area.

The Vietnamese intern said that his main job is to use shovels to remove the mud from the ditch, and sometimes weeding some houses. When they were working, they could often see some Japanese workers carrying a radiation detector to test the surroundings. When the equipment rang an alarm, they heard the other party saying it was dangerous.

Due to concerns about his work environment, Vietnamese interns have indicated to the Japanese company that they are reluctant to go to Fukushima, but they are “reprimanded” as a result. Because most of his expenses from Vietnam to Japan were borrowed from the bank, it was only 10 years to pay off his salary in Vietnam. So you can only "clench your teeth and pay off your debts."

For such high-risk work, some Japanese media reported that the Japanese nationals themselves are actually not willing to go to Fukushima to carry out decontamination work. Before that, Japanese companies had advertised on many occasions but no one had applied. Thus, the "technical trainee" system has become a major way for Japanese companies to employ foreign workers to decontaminate. However, these Vietnamese workers sent to nuclear-pollution sites did not know that their place of work was Fukushima's nuclear radiation area.

Currently, 70% of the 801 hectares of land near the Fukushima nuclear power plant under the jurisdiction of the Fukushima prefectural government is covered by black bags containing radioactive soil and other wastes.

Japanese netizens have expressed their anger over having foreign workers work in such a harsh environment.

Some netizens said that companies doing this should be punished and the "trainees" system should be abolished!

In response to the foreign interns being sent to Fukushima to clean up nuclear waste, the Japanese Ministry of Justice has launched an investigation. According to the Ministry of Justice officials, “it is impossible to make a judgment before the end of the investigation, but if the intern is engaged in work that is totally inconsistent with the internship plan submitted to the Immigration Bureau, it is an offence and will be punished.”

On the 11th of this year, the seventh anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear accident will be celebrated. The magnitude 9.0 earthquake seven years ago not only triggered a large-scale tsunami, but also led to this terrible accident. Hundreds of thousands of people fled from the city of Fukushima in panic, and now Fukushima's many streets are empty and dilapidated.

The related detection and investigation of radioactive materials for Fukushima indicated that the status of nuclear pollution in the area is still not optimistic. Not long ago, a team of researchers from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom discovered uranium and other radioactive materials, such as thorium and thorium, in the fuel residue of the Fukushima first nuclear reactor. Scientists believe that it is necessary to conduct further detailed investigations on the fuel residue inside the Fukushima nuclear power plant and possibly outside the nuclear separation area. And, the radioactive fallout in Fukushima may have a much longer environmental impact than previously anticipated.

On March 3rd, Tokyo Electric Power Co., Ltd. detected radioactive tantalum elements in fish located in an offshore area of about 4 kilometers, and even exceeded the national standard by more than two times. Although the nuclear leakage accident has occurred for many years, the impact of nuclear radiation continues