karoshi on Vice

  • Japan's Suicidal Salarymen Are Dying for Work

    A large amount of the population in Japan's biggest cities have a destructive relationship with work, literally, with many grinding themselves away to an early grave. The social phenomenon has its own word, karoshi, and it isn't death from digit-crippling labor in a sweatshop or accidents on a building site. It's suits in corporate buildings dying from strokes, heart attacks, or committing suicide after being worked to their limit. Full story

    2012 Dec 18 Sam Clements Stuff
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