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Japan Used Foreign Worker 'Interns' to Help Clean Up the Fukushima Nuclear Site
Photos post-Fukushima disaster. (Pallava Bagla/Corbis via Getty Images)

Japan needs workers. It is the world’s oldest society, with a quarter of its population over the age of 65. By 2060, an estimated 40 percent of the population will be seniors, with 27 percent over age 75.

To augment the workforce and take care of all those older people, the country is bringing in immigrants to perform service sector jobs. It’s also issuing “technical intern visas” to more skilled workers who can perform factory and construction work. Oh, and nuclear cleanup work. Although, the workers may not have known that’s what they were doing. No one thought to tell them.

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