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TUJ's Jeff Kingston discusses Japan's rebuilding on "CBS Sunday Morning"

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"CBS Sunday Morning"

All along Japan's northern coast it's shocking to see the vast stretches of emptiness — a moonscape dotted with mountains of debris. "There is so much debris, but it exceeds the capacity of these communities to get rid of it, to incinerate it, to dump it. So it has to go somewhere else. And other communities around Japan have not been raising their hands," said Jeff Kingston of Temple University, Japan Campus. "There are vague concerns about radiation, about asbestos…and because there are these large piles of debris still there, a year later, reconstruction can't happen."