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Our lives haven't changed at all these past three years and eight months. The nuclear plants could be restarted, and the evacuees of Fukushima swept under the rug like they never existed.

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Chikara Kojima, 79, who had to evacuate from the village of Katsurao, Fukushima Prefecture, because of the nuclear disaster. He says evacuees doubt whether politicians have their interests in mind. (Mainichi Shimbun)

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evacuees of Fukushima swept under the rug like they never existed

Haven't they been so already, when not accused of being scroungers?

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Why should the government care? The old villagers are only a few grams of weight in pile of problems weighing tons. I suppose they want the government to build them new homes? I guess the BOJ can sell some more bonds to itself to come up with the money, if it didn't already have a quadrillion yen worth of debt sitting on it's shoulders, with no clear way to repay it.

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