Japan's homeless recruited for Fukushima clean-up

I thought US corporations were the most heartless organizations in the world, but the Japanese seem to have them beat. Can you believe that anyone would recruit the homeless to clean up the worst radioactive mess in history?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/30/us-fukushima-workers-idUSBRE9BT00520131230

I guess that's one way to get homeless people off the streets ... permanently.