Japan's homeless recruited for murky Fukushima clean-up

Labourers being dispatched to Fukushima for a bounty of $100 per head

Flashback: The destroyed roof of the No.3 reactor building of tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in February 20, 2012

Seiji Sasa hits the train station in this northern Japanese city before dawn most mornings to prowl for homeless men.

He isn't a social worker. He's a recruiter. The men in Sendai Station are potential laborers that Sasa can dispatch to contractors in Japan's nuclear disaster zone for a bounty of $100 a head.