Fukushima 'Decontamination Troops' Often Exploited, Shunned

The ashes of half a dozen unidentified laborers ended up at a Buddhist temple in this town just north of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Some of the dead men had no papers, others left no emergency contacts. Their names could not be confirmed and no family members had been tracked down to claim their remains. They were simply labeled “decontamination troops” -- unknown soldiers in Japan's massive cleanup campaign to make Fukushima livable again five years after radiation...

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