The night is cold here in Sendai, far to the north of Tokyo.
This station's the warmest place to sleep for people living rough.
It's also a fertile recruiting ground.
Brokers are selling homeless people like this to companies cleaning up radiation in Fukushima.
Shizuya Nishiyama's been sleeping rough for a year, and he's twice been sent to scrub down radioactive hotspots.
(SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) 57-YEAR-OLD HOMELESS MAN, SHIZUYA NISHIYAMA, SAYING:
"We're an easy target for recruiters. We turn up here with all our bags, wheeling them around and around the station and we're easy to spot. Then they say to us: 'Are you looking for work? Are you hungry?'"
Activists say homeless people are flocking here from across Japan to look for work in the tsunami-devastated north.
But the safer jobs are now in short-supply.
Yasuhiro Aoki is leader of this homeless support group.
Many workers are reaching their radiation limits, he says, so ther
