In these days of natural and nuclear disaster involving Japan, is a figure, the 'liquidators', which has become a focus of media attention and readers. These workers risk their lives to clear the area of radioactive waste Fukushima endanger others. However, as reflected in the British newspaper 'The Guardian', the history of the settlement is not as romantic as it sounds.
Shingo Kanno is one of those 'nuclear samurais', as they have been dubbed by some media. To the world you do not know, Kanno is a selfless hero who tries to save his country from a 'nuclear holocaust'. To his family, is a father who plays the guy to earn some extra money doing unskilled jobs in Fukushima.
The uncle of this 'nuclear hero' shows their objections to this alleged feat. "People only celebrates the epic side of their profile, because they are sacrificing their lives to try to fix the leak, but people like Shingo's 'amateur' ... I really do not know what can help. Those who do not resolve this issue should be people like him, "said Masao Kanno.
Masao is one of the 500 individuals who had taken refuge in the sports of Yonezawa. Most of the evacuees lived 19 miles from the plant in Fukushima, a huge building that just repairing the road to school or work and now rules their lives. Shingo Kanno was a workman who was engaged in construction work at the nuclear plant until he was released from his duties as soon as Fukushima declared nuclear alert.
As it extended and the Japanese government extended the evacuation area, was forced to move with his wife, daughter and her in-laws to a safer place. He also helped evacuate his family from the town of Minamisoma within the exclusion zone of 30 square kilometers around the plant. At that time, was when the call to participate as liquidator in the nuclear plant.
All his family tried to persuade him to reject the request and tried to make him understand that he was little more than a peasant, not a nuclear engineer, and lacks the skills and knowledge required to handle a crisis of this magnitude. Appealed to their responsibilities towards his wife, his parents and his daughter, but returned to the central Shingo and his relatives have not heard from him since.
Throughout this time, the legend of the 'nuclear Samurai' has not stopped growing. Japanese television aired an interview with one of the workers in Fukushima, with his face hidden describing the sirens, explosions, water from the pool of nuclear waste ... at the time of the disaster and also recounted his own emotions.
"I feel bad for those who are on the ground, but had to leave there," says the employee. This report has ignited the spirits of the refugees in the sports facilities. "We have been brainwashed", adds Keiichi Yamamoto, "The Japanese are trained to focus their life to the performance of companies and their companies end up taking precedence over their own lives," he summarizes.
Following the accident in Fukushima, many locals who are considering their relationship with the nuclear plant before returning home when everything is over. Some even question whether they are guilty of the disaster. Endo Yoshizo moved to live near the plant in 1970 when he joined the staff of the newly opened nuclear plant in Fukushima.
For over 20 years he was inspector of the facilities, subject to regular exercises to test the security in case of fire, earthquake ... but never contemplated the possibility of having a nuclear disaster of this magnitude. "Now it's easy to say we should have thought about it," he explains.
His wife says bluntly that this whole crisis is becoming increasingly uphill. For years, her husband took out a good job on the ground and thanks to it now have a pension that allows them to live comfortably. "I feel guilty," he says. Endo was also called to work in a team as liquidator, as Kanno, but "I can not really do anything in such situations, the only thing I can do is hold a thermometer," he concludes. 
Shingo Kanno is one of those 'nuclear samurais', as they have been dubbed by some media. To the world you do not know, Kanno is a selfless hero who tries to save his country from a 'nuclear holocaust'. To his family, is a father who plays the guy to earn some extra money doing unskilled jobs in Fukushima.
The uncle of this 'nuclear hero' shows their objections to this alleged feat. "People only celebrates the epic side of their profile, because they are sacrificing their lives to try to fix the leak, but people like Shingo's 'amateur' ... I really do not know what can help. Those who do not resolve this issue should be people like him, "said Masao Kanno.
Masao is one of the 500 individuals who had taken refuge in the sports of Yonezawa. Most of the evacuees lived 19 miles from the plant in Fukushima, a huge building that just repairing the road to school or work and now rules their lives. Shingo Kanno was a workman who was engaged in construction work at the nuclear plant until he was released from his duties as soon as Fukushima declared nuclear alert.
As it extended and the Japanese government extended the evacuation area, was forced to move with his wife, daughter and her in-laws to a safer place. He also helped evacuate his family from the town of Minamisoma within the exclusion zone of 30 square kilometers around the plant. At that time, was when the call to participate as liquidator in the nuclear plant.
All his family tried to persuade him to reject the request and tried to make him understand that he was little more than a peasant, not a nuclear engineer, and lacks the skills and knowledge required to handle a crisis of this magnitude. Appealed to their responsibilities towards his wife, his parents and his daughter, but returned to the central Shingo and his relatives have not heard from him since.
Throughout this time, the legend of the 'nuclear Samurai' has not stopped growing. Japanese television aired an interview with one of the workers in Fukushima, with his face hidden describing the sirens, explosions, water from the pool of nuclear waste ... at the time of the disaster and also recounted his own emotions.
"I feel bad for those who are on the ground, but had to leave there," says the employee. This report has ignited the spirits of the refugees in the sports facilities. "We have been brainwashed", adds Keiichi Yamamoto, "The Japanese are trained to focus their life to the performance of companies and their companies end up taking precedence over their own lives," he summarizes.
Following the accident in Fukushima, many locals who are considering their relationship with the nuclear plant before returning home when everything is over. Some even question whether they are guilty of the disaster. Endo Yoshizo moved to live near the plant in 1970 when he joined the staff of the newly opened nuclear plant in Fukushima.
For over 20 years he was inspector of the facilities, subject to regular exercises to test the security in case of fire, earthquake ... but never contemplated the possibility of having a nuclear disaster of this magnitude. "Now it's easy to say we should have thought about it," he explains.
His wife says bluntly that this whole crisis is becoming increasingly uphill. For years, her husband took out a good job on the ground and thanks to it now have a pension that allows them to live comfortably. "I feel guilty," he says. Endo was also called to work in a team as liquidator, as Kanno, but "I can not really do anything in such situations, the only thing I can do is hold a thermometer," he concludes.
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