Tokyo ( CNN ) -- You would n't know the punk band was Japanese , a culture self-programmed for propriety . I ca n't write the chorus ( sung in English ) of the band 's favorite song here , as my editor would first delete the offensive word and then report me to my superiors . Let 's just say it 's an obscenity that begins with the letter `` F '' and rhymes with what hockey players call the vulcanized rubber disk that 's hit into the goal . The four-piece band screams the word over and over again to a Ramones tune , `` Rockaway Beach , '' directed at the Tokyo Electric Power Company ( TEPCO ) , operator of the crippled Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant . If you have n't guessed it yet this band -- known as the Scrap -- is angry with TEPCO for a reason . Each member of the group was affected by the meltdown at the plant in northeastern Japan that followed last year 's earthquake and tsunami . Why Fukushima will remain a threat . Lead singer and lyrics writer , Nobutaka Takahashi , lived in Namie , just a few miles away from the plant . He was evacuated as the plant leaked radiation across a swath of northern Japan . He is one of the 78,000 residents who have been unable to return to a 12.4-mile ( 20-km ) exclusion zone around the plant , now a nuclear wasteland . The song is also about loss and sadness , said Takahashi . `` My family far apart , looks up at the same sky , shattered by earthquake and betrayal . There is no such thing as the truth , '' said Takahashi , sharing the lyrics of the song . Takahashi lost his home and all of his possessions . He has essentially lost his job because the company he worked with is based inside the evacuation zone . `` I ca n't go home , '' he said . `` I want to tell people the pain , sadness and isolation I feel because I ca n't go home . '' A year after the disaster , Takahashi 's story is one shared by many of the evacuees from the world 's worst nuclear disaster in 25 years . Like Takahashi , all are uncertain about whether they will ever return home to their land and possessions . Most continue to seek refuge with friends and extended family members . During a recent visit to the Fukushima plant , the manager of the disaster spoke to reporters about the possibility of evacuees being allowed home . Takeshi Takahashi , no relation to Nobutaka Takahashi , said the return date remained `` uncertain , '' and that TEPCO would continue to do its best in conjunction with the government to help the residents return . The plant manager said some residents south of the nuclear plant might be able to return this spring . Namie , Nobutaka Takahashi 's hometown , sits to the north . Namie is one of the more contaminated regions in the evacuation zone . Frustrated by the slow clean-up , Takahashi says singing is his outlet . It 's also his reminder to anyone who is willing to listen that the nuclear nightmare continues a year after the reactor buildings exploded .
Band 's songs directed at Tokyo Electric Power Company ( TEPCO ) , operator of Fukushima nuclear plant . Each member of the group was affected by the meltdown at the plant that followed March 11 tsunami . The song is called " I'm not afraid to die " and it has been played on radio stations across Japan since then.