Mariko Sato of the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, said in March 2011: “Explosions at the nuclear power plant have forced me to evacuate twice already. What’s going to happen in the days ahead?”
When it came to light in the summer of 2007 that pension records of as many as 50 million people had become untraceable due to clerical errors, anxious citizens formed long lines outside Social Insurance Agency (present-day Japan Pension Service) offices around the nation.