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Shelter life takes mental toll on Japan evacuees

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I was recently certified as a shelter worker here in the U.S. for all the displaced during the recent flooding of the Mississippi river! After a month, people start to feel debilitated and without constant care will loose faith in humanity! Japan must not give up on the displaced! A continued effort to sooth their fears is mandatory!

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All I do every day is eat, sleep and watch TV... Every day seems so long. I'm in my 60s, I have no work. I have nothing to hold on to and I'm too old to start over.

I sympathise entirely with this man, and though I realise that things are easier to say than do, now that the weather is decidedly more clement, he could do worse than round up some of his fellow refuges, head down to Nagatacho's diet building, set up a camp and make their voices heard to the ineffectual, self-interested suits inside.

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I think JGovt should just be honest and tell these people that are evacuees from the No Go Zone. That they may not be able to go home for many years. This may help them to move on and not be in Limbo.

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They should all be tested and treated for internal radiation as well as depression.

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Japanese government: "Let them eat cake"

They are not doing enough for these people. Instead of paying out the money it would take to give them back their lives it appears that government and insurance companies have decided it's better to cut off a limb.

Soon you won't be calling them evacuees, you'll be calling them amputees cause Fukushima is now a no-go zone. It's the equivalent of amputation.

What happens to those old body parts anyway? Red bag? Labelled hazardous?

It's a public amputation using the scapel of bureaucracy. Why don't you remove the cancer (TEPCO) first. Nuclear energy is benign in nature, but unproperly cared for it became malign, killing it's host.

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