Saturday, December 7, 2013

Elderly Survivors of Kobe Great Earthquake are Suffering

Kobe city-based Yotsubashi-gumi,


a Japanese contractor don't understand its corporate social responsibility(CSR).


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Kobe city-engaged construction firm is
 
 doing repair work in a residential building where bedridden or chronically ill 70s and 80s people live.
 
They are survivors of the 1995 Kobe Great Earthquake.
 
The 100 year old building contractor has put up the more-than-minimum scaffolding,


so that the senior dwellers cannot get any rays of sunlight anywhere and anytime even in the daytime.

with Kobe City's connivance.









The scaffolding is to be left till next March.


The elderly people need the daylight for prevention of  poor sleeping and senile dementia.



The workers don't seem to use the scaffolds but the elevators for tiny repairs


and what is worse

they have taken advantages of the dwellers' weakness 

such as 

coating the front doors and walls with uneven rust preventing paint.





It is one of the terminal symptoms of construction firms in its death throes.










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