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Avatar Posted by monkutare 67 days ago (http://www.nippon-sekai.com)
Category: Business and Economy | Tags: business overtime karoshi
When it was revealed in June that hundreds of Japanese civil servants had accepted beer, snacks and even cash from Tokyo taxi drivers in return for repeat business, the public reaction was unsurprisingly sour. The “pub taxis”, as they were dubbed, operate late at night, when trains have stopped ru read more »
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Avatar Posted by Jordan 84 days ago (http://www.washingtonpost.com)
Category: Work | Tags: karoshi japan work death
Death from too much work is so commonplace in Japan that there is a word for it -- karoshi. read more »
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