yoshida now works part-time at a construction site. he says his physical strength has reached its limit and he's exhausted from doing work he's not accustomed to. >> translator: we're just living day to day. i'm not asking for a better l e life. i just want to make progress in the compensation process so that we can lead a stable life. >> with us is kimoti kir saw waugh. we'll guide you with a simultaneous translation. the accident at fukushima daiichi shook the world. but only six months into the accident, tepco started compensating people affected by the crisis. why is it taking so long? >> in short, neither the japanese government or tepco expected such an accident to happen. so they were not sufficiently prepared. regarding compensation for nuclear accidents, many countries with nuclear power plants have been placed in place special legislation which provides for example stipulations which place primary responsibility on the plant operator. japan, germany and switzerland have not set an upper limit for the amount of compensation to

yusuke yoshida, nhk world, sukumo. >>> welcome back to your weather update.e're taking a look at tropical activity is starting to pick up in the south pacific. south japan, looking at the clouds starting to bubble up. that is a tropical depression that's showing signs of organizing. forecasts are calling for it to become a tropical storm system within the next 24 hours. so it will be a system that needs close monitoring as it could start bringing stormy weather towards the southern islands of japan. the islands will start to feel some of those rough sea conditions along the coastline. as for japan, still remains wet in the northern areas. again this morning, although that is headed out, then things should look a lot drier really across the whole country. as for china, looking at rain coming out of central areas, starting to head now in towards the northeast, as well as parts of the korean peninsula. then areas pick up a heavier rainfall. you want to watch for that. as for the southeast, we look at plenty of tropical activity. there are showers and thunderstor