The following podcast contains explicit language.

Friday, March 10, 2017, from Slated's Digestive Mike Pesca,

let's check in with Japan six years after the Fukushima meltdown.

Who's wandering around that prefecture?

Hundreds of radioactive wild boars moved into deserted towns after the nuclear crisis.

Now they scour the empty streets and overgrown backyards of Namiye Town for food.

Radioactive wild boars, and you thought Nippon Ham Fighters was a weird name for a baseball team.

Yeah, towns near the Fukushima reactor have been overrun by radioactive wild boars.

It's a weird phrase that actually gets a little better with each word radioactive wild boars.

Although, if I had to change just one word, the last word I changed is the wild.

I mean, if they were radioactive domestic boars,

they'd really help the situation, then they'd be reliant on radioactive handlers and

radioactive trainers for their food needs. They do pair well with a certain type of radish.

An unexpected nuisance for those trying to return home six years after the meltdown.

Maybe not nuisance. Maybe a fairly accurate harbinger.

Actually a useful warning sign. Oh yeah, we went with the red exclamation mark in the triangle.

People still wandered in. Then we tried these skull and crossbones didn't work.

It was strong iconography and yet didn't do the job.

Then we realized nothing says keep out like the presence of radioactive wild boars.

Now I know people are desperate to return home, but the average radiation level is still well

above Japan's goal. Homes are still damaged or abandoned and the streets are littered with bags

of radioactive waste. And not only those bags, also the boars, the radioactive wild boars.

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