As Sunday's snap election nears, many of the people working toward the decommissioning of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant say they want voters to know about their harsh working conditions, insufficient pay and worries of radiation exposure.
Currently some 6,000 people a day are engaged in the decommissioning work at the plant — a process expected to take 30 to 40 years to complete.
Every day, buses and cars carry workers back and forth between the reactor buildings and the nearby J-Village facilities used by Tokyo Electric Power Co. as its forward base and other offices.