he acknowledged the danger he was sometimes in when he spoke in 2011 to a co-worker at swedish radio about his decision to stay on the front lines of the fukushima daiichi nuclear disaster: "most journalists are not interested in risking their lives for a story. some do, but i don't think it's in our culture here at swedish radio to take insane risks to do the story and also as radio journalists we don't have to be extremely close to people shooting. as a tv cameraman they have to be very close to get the pictures but we don't feel the same pressure to be always in the middle of some firefight or something but of course we want to be as close as possible and in japan, i wanted to come close to the people who were thinking of whether they should evacuate or not, so you almost have to ask yourself everyday, is it worth taking the risk or is it not?"