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Odaka, fuku prefecture Diseased inedible cattle being kept like pets by shattered farmer. Farmer Yoshizawa undergoes sixteen total body scans out of fear of nuclear pollution, perhaps increasing his cancer risk from excessive medical radiological exposure!! "I will finish my life here and die as a cattleman here." Japanese from other prefectures visit "as a show of support", and seem oblivious to the radiation risk, to the surprise of the camera crew. "The government isn't telling the truth". region deserted and silent. Piles of radioactive debris litter the exclusion zone. radiation counter shows 3.36 micro-Sieverts per hour of gamma radiation, more than one metre above ground level 3.36 uSv/hr "We people have been deceived by govt and electricity company" says lady caring for abandoned cats in the exclusion zone. Atsafumi Yoshizawa. former NPP worker stayed at Fuku-Daiichi during the worst of the crisis trying to stabilize the situation, at enormous personal risk. "We were ready to sacrifice ourselves... it was an extremely tough time." Safecast radiation mapping: Joe Marals(?) and Asby Brown "levels are dropping faster than we expected" but they doubt young mothers or children would want to return to the area given the perceived risks. Niako Inome in Fukushima City: "We are so tired of this I'm so fed up......... Everyone's immune system has become weaker. The children's bodies are changing." Kyoko Tokada, refugee from Fukushima City, one of 6 people living in a space the size of a kid's bedroom on the outskirts of Tokyo. "I just can't trust them" she says referring to government assessments of radiation risk. Bizarre "Dad's Army" raking a field, raising dust, in the apparent belief that they are rehabilitating the land for future food production. What the....? Old man surveys coastal cleanup activities, presumably nuclear contaminated tsunami rubble: "it makes me feel miserable. it breaks my heart." Copyright SBS 2013. This low-resolution video is posted in the public interest, but WILL BE REMOVED promptly at the request of the copyright owner, preferably after a couple of weeks "grace" ;-)