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enformable: It might surprise the Western reader that gangsters are involved in Japan’s nuclear industry and even more that they would risk their lives in a nuclear crisis. But the yakuza roots in Japanese society are very deep. In fact, they were some of the first responders after the earthquake, providing food and supplies to the devastated area and patrolling the streets to make sure no looting occurred During the 70´s in Japan the growing demand for electricity in modern society made nuclear power plants grow as mushrooms. Meanwhile the Yakuza was making night tours around the cities recruiting beggars and social outcasts by offering them a miserable pay for doing allegedly cleaning jobs. Once taken to destiny they would discover that they had been taken to nuclear reactors whose interiors they were expected to clean. There, they were obliged to work under sweltering temperatures and were exposed to radiation levels tens of times higher than allowed. After that, they became Genpatsu Gypsies (nuclear gypsies) that once recruited were meant to wander from one central to another in order to do their jobs and receive a daily payment. 

enformable:

It might surprise the Western reader that gangsters are involved in Japan’s nuclear industry and even more that they would risk their lives in a nuclear crisis. But the yakuza roots in Japanese society are very deep. In fact, they were some of the first responders after the earthquake, providing food and supplies to the devastated area and patrolling the streets to make sure no looting occurred

During the 70´s in Japan the growing demand for electricity in modern society made nuclear power plants grow as mushrooms. Meanwhile the Yakuza was making night tours around the cities recruiting beggars and social outcasts by offering them a miserable pay for doing allegedly cleaning jobs.

Once taken to destiny they would discover that they had been taken to nuclear reactors whose interiors they were expected to clean. There, they were obliged to work under sweltering temperatures and were exposed to radiation levels tens of times higher than allowed.

After that, they became Genpatsu Gypsies (nuclear gypsies) that once recruited were meant to wander from one central to another in order to do their jobs and receive a daily payment. 

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