“End of the day, factory
whistle cries, Men walk through these gates with death in their eyes”
- Bruce Springsteen, Factory (1)
“Bring us the living dead. People no one will miss.” - Fukushima official’s
request to Yakuza (2)
“TEPCO's involvement with anti-social 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 (3)
The technological issue of nuclear energy is intertwined with the exploitation
of human labor in a hierarchy of interests, and how human labor is expended
is an economic and moral issue. The Grand Scientific Project from the
time of Francis Bacon up to the Manhattan Project of Oppenheimer and
Fermi has been a dangerous gamble for humanity even though the advertised
purpose is that progress is good.
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.
Considered to be “Japan’s largest organized crime group” -- who are
on the radar of the US Treasury Dept. (another big crime group) (4)
-- the Yakuza offer a service to society by sopping up its losers and
giving them a dodgy occupation.
Journalist, Jake Adelstein, an expert on the Yakuza, risked his life
as a reporter on the crime beat in Japan. Not because of shoot outs
or knife fights, but because he had to take up smoking cigarettes in
order to fit in with police and yakuza! These short video interviews
offer a useful introduction into how the Yakuza operate (5; 6). 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’ ” (Op. cit. “The Yakuza and the Nuclear Mafia”).
Adelstein notes that the 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” (Op. cit.
interviews).
“[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” (Op. cit.
“How the Yakuza went Nuclear”; “The Yakuza”).
Without the dregs of society to do the dirty work, modern society could
not exist its present, most hypocritical form. Most people do not want
to get dirt under their fingernails and prefer to apply nail polish
or chat on their iPhones.
Working in nuclear power plants in Japan is not considered an honorable
and elegant trade, like cabinet making or industrial design, but a brutal,
labor intensive experience. While the Yakuza organization itself is
an evil, the workers themselves can be considered heroes. The amount
of excruciating heat, hard work, physical and mental stress and radiation
they endure is inhuman. Even working at a normally functioning reactor
is not easy or safe work but the FNPP is highly radioactive.
Fearless Reporter Tells All
Adelstein reviews an astounding new book, “The Yakuza and the Nuclear
Industry,” by undercover Japanese reporter, Tomohiko Suzuki (Op. cit.
“The Yakuza”). Suzuki truly risked his life, due to radiation exposure
and possible threats, to bring us the details from the Nuclear Hell
Zone. The book reveals scandalous information such as that mentally
handicapped people are recruited to work in the nuke plants by the Yakuza.
Suzuki 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.”
Having lived in Tokyo for many years, I concur. I am not a fan of Yakuza
culture and can see in my daily experience that the Yakuza have a degrading
effect on society. But as long as you don’t mess with them-- they won’t
mess with you. In this way, the streets of Tokyo remain fairly safe.
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. According to Adelstein:
“As the scale of the catastrophe at Fukushima became apparent, many
workers fled the scene. To contain the nuclear meltdown, a handful of
workers stayed behind, being exposed to large amounts of radiation:
the so-called ‘Fukushima Fifty.’ Among this heroic group, according
to Suzuki, were several members of the yakuza .... ‘Almost all nuclear
power plants that are built in Japan are built taking the risk that
the workers may well be exposed to large amounts of radiation .... That
they will get sick, they will die early, or they will die on the job.
And the people bringing the workers to the plants and also doing the
construction are often yakuza’ (Op. cit. “How the Yakuza”).
The very workers who are attempting to shore up the situation at FNPP,
many of whom are Yakuza, are being blamed by local people in Fukushima
for the disaster. A recent survey reported that 30 percent of 1,495
workers at the site suffer from severe mental health issues. The survey
does not even include the most exploited workers at the site (7).
Nuclear Situation Deteriorating
Akio Matsumura is a renowned Japanese diplomat and “founder and Secretary
General of the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders on
Human Survival.” He sounds like the right man for the job to tackle
the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Unfortunately, his warnings are falling
on deaf ears. In a recent column he reported that the “Skilled Veterans
Corps for Fukushima, along with 700 members, want to help clean up”
the FNPP. Most of the volunteers are in their older years so getting
cancer is not as great of a threat, whereas younger workers could die
prematurely. The group’s representative, Mr. Yamada, “doesn’t believe
TEPCO has the technological capabilities to deal with the long term
issues. TEPCO, he says, doesn’t believe this either. TEPCO’s plan, according
to Yamada, is to contain the radiation in the next 40 years. He estimates
they will need 50 years or perhaps much longer.”
Matsumura thinks more aggressive actions won’t be taken:
“Regrettably I do not expect much of an outcome. After 17 months, the
situation is worsening and unless Japan requests the independent assessment
team and guarantees a huge budget to carry out the team’s technical
advice, the US government will not step in” to help (8).
US nuclear policy is equally dangerous, thus, a safe and speedy resolution
to what appears to be an insurmountable problem is not on the horizon.
Tony Boys worked as an interpreter for nuclear expert, Dr. Chris Busby,
on his visit to Japan last year. Boys told me:
“They may be ‘rebuilding’ at the FNPP, but I don’t think that solves
the fundamental problem. You know how the Japanese love to do something
cosmetic to make things look good because they don't know how to really
do it properly, but have to do ‘something’ ? Well, I think that's largely
what is going on at the site.”
Radio host, Jeff Rense, whose website has studiously reported on the
nuclear catastrophe and all of Japan’s botched policies, told me that
“everything they do is horrendous.” For example, Japan’s decision to
ship contaminated Fukushima soil all the way across the country is truly
stupefying (9).
Prime Minister Noda recently rejected protester’s requests to shut down
the nuclear reactors. As the Metropolitan Coalition Against Nukes told
Noda in a face to face meeting, “[w]e the people do not believe you”
regarding his empty promises to phase out nukes in the future. The Nuclear
Mafia are restarting reactors even though they are unnecessary for electricity
production. An overwhelming majority of people want to abolish nuclear
power (10; 11; 12). Having contaminated the world with quadrillions
of becquerels of radiation (petabecquerels), Tepco is under a pseudo
nationalization process that funnels tax money into their pockets yet
maintains their autonomy (13).
Worker Shortage
A common practice among workers in nuclear plants is to hide their real
exposure rate of radiation. Because there are legal limits of radiation
exposure, workers will take off their dosimeters, or cover them with
lead. In normal times in Japan workers could also migrate from one plant
to the other without indicating previous work experience, and work “under
the table.” How long it takes to get sick and or die from such a practice
is anyone’s guess.
If the “living dead,” the people “no one will miss” and the dregs of
society can’t be coerced into sacrificing themselves, how about top
Tepco executives or pro nuclear professors from Tokyo University for
a helping hand? Good idea! But first you will have to chase them down
on the golf course. NHK reports that:
“[M]any workers crucial to the effort are reaching the limit for radiation
exposure .... University of Tokyo Professor Kazumitsu Nawata warns of
the consequences of losing nuclear plant workers with necessary expertise.
He says young workers must be trained due to the need for massive manpower
to fully bring the Daiichi plant under control.”
Is Professor Nawata volunteering other’s children for this dirty job,
or maybe his own children would prefer to work in the High Sievert Zone?
Tokyo University bears a heavy responsibility for the current catastrophe
for its role in legitimizing the Nuclear Mafia.
A notable percentage of workers are leaving once they have reached the
legal radiation limits. Of the 3,000 daily workers, “[s]ome of the firms
have adopted stricter exposure standards ... so that they do not breach
the limit and become unemployable” (14).
A number of recent incidents have highlighted the scandal over worker
safety, including:
* Over 140 workers have been found to have used fake names when getting
jobs doing reconstruction work and are presently unaccounted for (Op.
cit., “The Yakuza”).
* Workers have purposely left integral dosimeter off their person while
at work. “Tepco is pushing the responsibility to their sub-contract
companies but has no solution for the shortage of nuclear workers” which
indicates “major staffing problems” at the plant (15; 16).
* Some workers themselves think the only solution to shoring up the
plant will be “human wave tactics” as were employed at Chernobyl (17).
If that is the case, where will the necessary workforce come from? In
order combat the dwindling labor force, Tepco and subcontractors are
knowingly telling workers to fake their radiation data. The practice
is “believed to be part of a widespread practice at the plant” (18;
19; 20).
Former General Electric nuclear plant inspector, a whistle blower who
previously exposed dangers at the Fukushima plant--that were ignored--Kei
Sugaoka, admitted that he had heard of young workers in the Taiwan nuclear
industry dying from cancer due to radiation. When he worked in Taiwan
he says “[t]hey made us wear lead vests to falsify radiation exposure
... All the lead did was cover our dosimeters” (21).
Despite the need to quickly resolve the situation, workers are given
weekends off, but are also being recruited for decontamination in the
20 km zone. Speculation is that restart of other reactors in Japan will
worsen the worker shortage. Japan seems to be going in too many directions
at once (22; 23; 24).
The Nuclear Workforce
French sociologist, Paul Jobin, “began research on Japanese and Taiwanese
nuclear plant workers in 2002, mainly at Fukushima Daiichi,” and he
did follow up interviews after the Fukushima disaster in 2011.
Jobin notes that:
* Subcontracting labor at nuclear plants in Japan began shortly after
their creation, in the mid-1970s. “In France, this trend would develop
after 1988, reaching a rate of 80% by 1992.”
* “According to NISA’s data, in 2009, Japan’s nuclear industry recruited
more than 80,000 contract workers against 10,000 regular employees.”
* Part time employment is carried out in order to limit labor costs
“whether in France or Japan, the nuclear industry nurtures a heavy culture
of secrecy concerning the number of irradiated workers.”
* Before the Fukushima disaster, “only 9 former workers received compensation
for an occupational cancer linked to their intervention in nuclear plants.”
This number is probably far lower than the real number of those who
suffered from working at NPPs.
* “[S]tatistics from TEPCO (dated November 30, 2011) reported 3,745
workers on the site in March (about 1700 TEPCO employees and 2,000 subcontractors),
and 14,000 for the time from April to October. The overwhelming majority
... were subcontractors.” But even these figures may not include many
low level but highly irradiated workers.
* Radiation exposure depends on one’s status in the hierarchy. Tepco
executives and high or mid level engineers are spared exposure, while
“there is systematic camouflage of the collective radiation of the most
exposed front line workers.”
* Since March 11, 2011, Jobin estimates “that around 30,000 workers
have been exposed to significant levels of radiation, some for a few
days, many for more than one month” (25; 26). How many of these workers
are desperate or “mentally handicapped” to begin with? No wonder they
are being used by the Nuclear Mafia as disposable work-bots. Hiroaki
Koide, nuclear reactor specialist at Kyoto University says “[t]he truth
of the matter is that the subcontract workers don’t really know the
dangers of radiation and they don’t know how to protect themselves.”
For example, wearing protective masks are so uncomfortable that many
workers remove them during their work shift (27). How many health issues
have been caused as a direct result of the work? In one case, the worker
had been exposed in less than a year to levels far beyond what is considered
normal lifetime background radiation. He suffered a heart attack (28).
Worker Rights Advocates Fight For Social Justice
Hifumi Okunuki is an expert in labor law and spends much of her time
fighting for the rights of Fukushima’s forgotten heroes. She notes that
“the working conditions at Fukushima No. 1 are an emergency within an
emergency” and that “special laws should be promulgated to guarantee
the safety and fair treatment of the workers.”
“Japan's Labor Standards Office has thus far recognized only 10 cases
of radiation sickness caused by working conditions due to the inherent
difficulty in proving causation in individual cases .... Management
faces quite serious, possibly criminal, liability if while understanding
the risk radiation exposure poses, they endanger those working on-site
through a complicated web of outsourcing. Article 87 of the Labor Standards
Law holds firms that outsource responsible for workplace safety and
sanitation for workers employed by their subcontractor .... Illnesses
caused by radiation exposure from nuclear power plants are covered by
Japan's Act on Compensation for Nuclear Damage.”
Unsurprisingly, the Japanese justice system which plays an integral
role in siding with the Nuclear Mafia has “yet to see a major court
case over radiation-related deaths” (29).
A new report from the venerable non governmental organization, Citizens
Nuclear Information Center (CNIC), in Tokyo, highlights the FNPP worker
issue. One whistle blower 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.”
However, thanks to growing international attention, some of the conditions
at FNPP have slightly improved. “Currently, ambulances are allowed to
come into the nuclear power station and there is a doctor onsite 24
hrs a day“ (30).
Tepco’s Blind Eye
According to CNIC (Ibid.), the system for employing nuclear workers
relies on an economically pyramid shaped, “multi-layered structure”
of contractors and subcontractors which makes profits for executives
and employees. Investigations have revealed the “[p]resence of subcontractors
affiliated with crime syndicates and their employees.” In the year 2000
it was known that “350 companies were involved” at the FNPP and that
many of the Yakuza employees or subcontractors are presently involved
in the clean up operations.
* “Under the utility, there are plant makers, subsidiaries of TEPCO
and the plant makers, large, medium- and small-sized construction and
repair companies, independent master carpenters and plumbers.”
* The Yakuza enforce a severe hierarchy “between the group leader and
the members” which is akin to the military and effective for getting
dangerous work accomplished.
* “[I]n 2006, TEPCO reportedly attempted to drive the gangsters ...
out of the plant.” The Yakuza said: “Do it if you think you can.” Tepco
blinked.
* ‘[P]olice arrested leading members of a gangster group affiliated
with the Sumiyoshi-kai crime syndicate based in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima
Prefecture’ who were ‘charged with violation of the Temporary Staffing
Services Law.’ A president of a local company who ‘was deeply involved
in the staffing of the nuclear power station and was the president of
the local chamber of commerce and industry, as well as a member of the
Fukushima Prefecture Nuclear Power Plant Town Information Council’ was
arrested on suspicion of ‘illegally possessing a gun.’
* “Workers hired by the lowest-level subcontractors were paid only around
5,000 yen [$60] per day, and were not covered by social insurance or
employment insurance .... the current average daily wage is said to
be 8,000 yen, although TEPCO pays 60,000-70,000 yen per capita to the
principal subcontractor.” Everyone in between ‘takes a cut from the
worker’s wages.’
In other words, it’s an economic racket. Although an “effective” system,
“[i]llegal acts, such as the forgery of health reports ... and not allowing
workers to subscribe to health insurance and employees’ pension plans,
are rampant,” but are tolerated by Tepco. This draws into question how
effective such workers can be given the intimidation of violence from
Yakuza bosses and the poor working conditions. The “problem is still
beyond TEPCO’s control because the subcontractor system is deeply multi-layered
and complex, and because the yakuza are so deeply entrenched in the
system.”
Destroying Democracy
The 1995 documentary film, Nuclear Ginza, is valuable for its historical
perspective on nuclear workers in Japan (31). Corruption, payoffs and
coverups were the norm, then and now. As one worker whose health was
damaged said,
“The big companies treat workers like objects or tools to be thrown
away when no longer needed. Japan is considered a rich advanced and
democratic country but its just an illusion I think.”
A Buddhist monk, Mr. Nakajima, who had worked for years to help the
plight of workers noted that “[u]nfortunately in Japan, the sad reality
is that democracy has been destroyed in the areas where nuclear power
exists.”
Streets Of Fire
Adelstein and Suzuki (Op. cit.) supply additional information of a particularly
lurid and grim nature:
* Yakuza have a saying: “When a man has to survive doing something,
it’s the nuclear industry; for a woman, it’s the sex industry.”
* One mid-level executive in the organization even defends the role
of his members in the Fukushima disaster. “The accident isn’t our fault,”
he said. “It’s TEPCO’s fault. We’ve always been a necessary evil in
the work process. In fact, if some of our men hadn’t stayed to fight
the meltdown, the situation would have been much worse. TEPCO employees
and the Nuclear Industry Safety Agency inspectors mostly fled; we stood
our ground.”
* “Organized crime groups from Kyushu are bringing workers as well.
Many of the workers are homeless people, debtors to yakuza loan sharks,
or former yakuza who have been expelled from their group.”
* Tepco refuses “to name the companies they use for outsourcing labor,
background security checks, and general security at the nuclear power
plants.” Recall Tepco’s feigned ignorance about government investigator’s
accusations against them for “collusion.” Such bland dismissals on the
part of Tepco are curious in light of the voluminous evidence to the
contrary. The Tepco president’s denials of any collusion is an obvious
lie (32; 33).
* “Suzuki discovered evidence of Tepco subcontractors paying yakuza
front companies to obtain lucrative construction contracts; of money
destined for construction work flying into yakuza accounts; and of politicians
and media being paid to look the other way.”
* “His fellow workers, found Suzuki, were a motley crew of homeless,
chronically unemployed Japanese men, former yakuza, debtors who owed
money to the yakuza, and the mentally handicapped.”
* “Suzuki claims the regular employees at the plant were often given
better radiation suits than the yakuza recruits. ‘Almost every day a
worker would keel over with heat exhaustion and be carried out; they
would invariably return to work the next day. Going to the bathroom
was virtually impossible, so workers were simply told to ‘hold it.’
’ ”
* “According to Suzuki, the temperature monitors in the plant weren’t
even working, and were ignored. Removing the mask during work was against
the rules; no matter how thirsty workers became, they could not drink
water.”
* “The risk of radiation exposure was 100 per cent. The masks, if their
filters were cleaned regularly, which they were not, could only remove
60 per cent of the radioactive particles in the air.”
* “Suzuki found people who’d been threatened into working at Fukushima,
but others who’d volunteered. Why? ‘Of course, if it was a matter of
dying today or tomorrow they wouldn’t work there,’ he explains. ‘It’s
because it could take 10 years or more for someone to possibly die of
radiation excess. It’s like Russian roulette. If you owe enough money
to the yakuza, working at a nuclear plant is a safer bet. Wouldn’t you
rather take a chance at dying 10 years later than being stabbed to death
now?’ ”
Conclusion
Faced with an ongoing radioactive nightmare which is contaminating Japan’s
food and water supply, what should be done? The Nuclear Mafia’s ethos
is silken sewn into the socio-political Kabuki theater of a post modern
Japanese society, which seems helpless to save itself. Maybe Ambassador
Matsumura, with his international political connections of good will,
and the Skilled Veterans for Fukushima would be good people to turn
to for advice.
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