From page 418: the mask Tatsuta wanted to wear in his first interview photo. They took two photos, one of him in this mask and one of him from the neck down. They used the one of him from the neck down.

Next up is stuff that's possibly Grimlock Signal-worthy: robots!

The image is from page 444 (sorry for the blurriness). It's 2014 and Tatsuta is working in an actual reactor building at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. There are low exposure areas there, but also plenty of areas where the radiation levels are too high for humans, even with protective gear on. That's where the robots come into play. They work in teams of 2-3. One robot does the 3D scanning that helps humans plan out future decommission work, one robot relays the data back to the base, and a potential third robot goes in and helps them if one of them tips over.

It's taken this long to get to the first detailed mention of female Ichi-F workers. And it starts with sparklies (because the lady is so pretty). :-/

Tatsuta doesn't come right out and say it, but I'm guessing that the official reason there aren't many female Ichi-F workers is because of the effects of radiation on possible pregnancies:

 

"At very rare intervals, you see women in Ichi-F. But most of them were foreign media, and above a certain age."

This whole page is devoted to the Fukushima dairy industry and several locally-produced dairy products. I hadn't realized that the drink Tatsuta's had for nearly every lunch/break had connections to the area.

Apparently the Fukushima dairy industry was also hit with radiation-related rumors - for example, that they were bringing in milk from other areas to reduce the radiation levels of Fukushima dairy products.

The way the money evens out at Ichi-F is complicated, and I'm not entirely able to follow some of the stuff Tatsuta is talking about right now. It all seems to basically come down to where in the chain of companies people fall. You might have two workers at Ichi-F, each doing the same job, but they're paid by different companies. The one guy whose company is located closer to the top of the chain might be paid twice as much as the guy whose company is further down the chain, because there are fewer people taking their own cut of the money.

One of the things that makes the situation more complicated: sometimes company owners are also actual workers at Ichi-F, putting them in the position of being able to sneakily scoop up other companies' workers for different jobs. However, if someone is discovered to be doing this, they get kicked out of the area. So these talks are done in secret, like drug deals.

Tatsuta initially wanted to work at Ichi-F for three reasons: a desire to do good, curiosity, and the pay was supposed to be good.

Considering that it took over a year for him to actually work at Ichi-F, and the pay wasn't as good as he'd originally thought, it took about three months of working at Ichi-F to make anything approaching a normal living. And then there's the belief that others have that Ichi-F workers are literally tainted. Landlords are reluctant to rent apartments to them, and some car rental places turn them away.