A nuclear power plant worker died in 8.22 2013

(oil painting on wood panel,collage. 117×98cm × 3 pieces. 2018)

 

I added what I had learned after making original version.

One of them is about local veteran workers and gangsters who worked together immediately after the accident.

Suzuki Tomohiko,

a Japanese nonfiction writer specialising in yakuza,

tried to cover the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

His book,

“Yakuza and Nuclear Power Plant,”

which he wrote about his experiences,

described the existence of men who had come to the nuclear power plant in the most critical situation,

some of them were never seen by workers who had worked there before the accident.

In a later interview,

he said they were 99 percent gangsters.

I also included the case of a gangster who was arrested for dispatching workers to work at nuclear power plants and excluding their wages.

This case was reported in a Japanese newspaper.

And Japanese-Brazilian men were engaged in nuclear power plant work.

Interviews with them were reported by the Asahi Shinbun too.

I also illustrated this.

 

( text : Akira Tsuboi )