Japan's work culture is so intense, people in the 1970s invented a word that translates to "death by overwork." "Karoshi," as it's known, involves employees committing suicide or suffering from heart ...

This is a photo of Takahashi Matsuri, who took her own life on Christmas Day of 2015 when she was 24 years old.Her ...

Yukimi Takahashi warned against moves that could condone longer working hours ahead of the 10th anniversary of the suicide of ...

That was Japan’s new far-right Prime Minister’s victory speech vow. Sanae Takaichi was talking about how she’d lead her own party. Not reform the nation’s notoriously long work weeks. But the comments ...

In the spring of 2015 Matsuri Takahashi, 24, joined the Dentsu advertising agency -- one of the Japan’s most prestigious, but also demanding, corporations -- as a young recruit. Within a few months ...

Japan’s push to take away overtime from high-paid workers has critics warning it will aggravate a problem synonymous with the country’s notoriously long working hours — karoshi, or death from overwork ...

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This week Tokyo-based news broadcaster NHK revealed that one of its journalists who died from heart failure in 2013 at the age of 31, died due to overwork. Last week, Japan's top advertising firm ...

In Japan, it's so common for employees to work themselves to death that there's a word for it: Karoshi.