Nuclear Family
Millions of people are still feeling the devastating after-effects of Japan's earthquake and tsunami. We investigate the problems and the daily challenges of life in Japan today.
"There doesn't seem to be any joy left for us in life", Yasuko Sakuuchi says, a grandmother who lives near the infamous Fukushima power plant. She and her family are being tested for radiation poisoning in a mobile van. Their 4-year-old granddaughter is too young to be tested and with radiation levels 14 times the norm, their doctor advises them to send her away. "We've never lived apart from each other", the child's mother says. Concerns for agriculture have spread across Japan and daily shopping in its ghost towns is becoming more and more of an ordeal. As anger steadily builds in Japan towards the government, can the new leader save the country from further disaster?
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