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Close of Takahiro Ishitani, truck driver in Fukushima, driving his truck 2. Pan from factory that Ishitani is driving into, to him inside the truck3. Fork-lift truck unloading metal...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eMinami-Soma city, Fukushima Prefecture - 1 March 2013\u003cbr/\u003e1. Close of Takahiro Ishitani, truck driver in Fukushima, driving his truck \u003cbr/\u003e2. Pan from factory that Ishitani is driving into, to him inside the truck\u003cbr/\u003e3. Fork-lift truck unloading metal gear from the truck while Ishitani is overseeing\u003cbr/\u003e4. Pan from Ishitani driving his truck to road surrounded by empty swathes of land\u003cbr/\u003e5. Tracking shot of overturned boats and rubble left from 2011 tsunami\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of Ishitani entering his apartment \u003cbr/\u003e7. Tilt down of Ishitani standing in his apartment where he lives alone\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Takahiro Ishitani, truck driver in Fukushima:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's the deception of the politicians, bureaucrats and TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) that makes me the maddest.\" \u003cbr/\u003e9. Ishitani looking at photographs of his sons and pictures that his children drew\u003cbr/\u003eIide town, Yamagata Prefecture - 2 March 2013\u003cbr/\u003e10. Tracking shot of snow-covered road which takes Ishitani to his family's current house\u003cbr/\u003eIide town, Yamagata Prefecture - 1 March 2013\u003cbr/\u003e11. Interior of Ishitani's house with his son Ryusei and his wife Yuko\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Yuko Ishitani, Takahiro Ishitani's wife:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It is worrying that I cannot be by his side especially when he is unwell and sick.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide of Ishitani family\u003cbr/\u003eMinami-Soma city, Fukushima prefecture - 1 March 2013\u003cbr/\u003e14. Pan from empty playground to Ishitani driving his truck, UPSOUND (Japanese) Takahiro Ishitani, truck driver: \"Look around. There used to be small kids around. But, none of them are playing outside in the park.\"\u003cbr/\u003eNaraha town, Fukushima Prefecture  - 6 March 2013\u003cbr/\u003e15. Various of workers decontaminating an area in Fukushima\u003cbr/\u003eJapan's radiation nightmare has turned the lively home that truck driver Takahiro Ishitani once shared with his wife and three sons into a cluttered bachelor pad.\u003cbr/\u003eIn his apartment's small living room laundry hangs inside so it won't absorb the radiation that remains in the ground, two years after an earthquake and tsunami caused meltdowns and explosions at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, about 30 kilometres (18 miles) to the south.\u003cbr/\u003eTo escape this lonely weekday existence, the 42-year-old Ishitani drives three hours up winding roads every weekend to see his family, which has moved away because of fears that radiation could harm the children.\u003cbr/\u003eJust as with Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, mental distress could be one of the biggest health issues to emerge from this disaster, experts say. \u003cbr/\u003eWhile attention has focused on the potential cancer risks, they remain unclear. \u003cbr/\u003eWhat is clear is that the uncertainty and the upheaval its caused in people's lives is already exacting a very real and pervasive psychological toll.\u003cbr/\u003eThere's anger at the government and the utility that owns the Fukushima plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co., or TEPCO. \u003cbr/\u003eIshitani doesn't know where to direct his rage. It makes him feel powerless.\u003cbr/\u003eHe has called the utility's head office in Tokyo numerous times to complain, but feels helpless unloading on a low-level public relations staffer who can't take any action.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's the deception of the politicians, bureaucrats and TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) that makes me the maddest,\" says Ishitani.\u003cbr/\u003eHis family received 500-thousand yen (5,200 US dollars) per month from TEPCO as compensation until last August.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter several hours of driving, Ishitani is much calmer as he sits with his wife and youngest son Ryusei in the family's rented house in Yamagata prefecture. \u003cbr/\u003eIshitani said he collapsed on the street with an ulcer nine months into the disaster. \u003cbr/\u003eHe was hospitalised for three days and still takes stomach medicine. \u003cbr/\u003eThe slightest tremor wakes him at night, and then he can't back to sleep as he worries about the future. \u003cbr/\u003eHis wife worries about him when she is not by his side, \"especially when he is unwell and sick,\" she said.\u003cbr/\u003eA health questionnaire sent to Fukushima residents by Fukushima Medical University showed that about 15 percent of 67,500 respondents indicated high levels of stress on the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale, a commonly used test to gauge stress, much higher than the 3 percent among the general population.\u003cbr/\u003eThe survey results, compiled through June, the most recent available, also showed 21 percent scored high on a checklist used to screen for post-traumatic stress disorder.\u003cbr/\u003eAs Ishitani runs errands around Minami-Soma in his four-ton truck, he wonders out loud whether his family should return to a place where hardly any children ride bikes anymore for fear of touching the contaminated ground.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Look around. There used to be small kids around. But, none of them are playing outside in the park,\" he says as he points to an empty playground. \u003cbr/\u003eHardly any progress has been made in decontaminating the area, and many doubt the cleanup - hosing down walls, carting away topsoil - is effective.\u003cbr/\u003eIshitani and his family fled abruptly in the middle of the night three days after the tsunami hit. \u003cbr/\u003eAfter two months in an evacuation centre, Ishitani returned to Minami-Soma to work. \u003cbr/\u003eMany families are similarly split - fathers sticking it out with their jobs while mothers and children live in temporary shelters or government-sponsored housing. \u003cbr/\u003eSometimes, the stress of separation has gotten to be too much, leading to what the media has dubbed \"nuclear divorces.\"\u003cbr/\u003eIshitani says his marriage remains strong, though his wife Yuko is lonely. \u003cbr/\u003eJapanese authorities have sought to address the psychological strain on residents by bringing in 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