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An NHK employee died at age 31 after logging 159 hours of overtime and taking just two days off in the month before her death due to heart failure:
Japan has again been forced to confront its work culture after labour inspectors ruled that the death of a 31-year-old employee of the country's public broadcaster, NHK, had been caused by overwork.
Miwa Sado, who worked at the broadcaster's headquarters in Tokyo, logged 159 hours of overtime and took only two days off in the month leading up to her death from heart failure in July 2013.
A labour standards office in Tokyo later attributed her death to karoshi (death from overwork) but her case was only made public by her former employer this week. Sado's death is expected to increase pressure on Japanese authorities to address the large number of deaths attributed to the punishingly long hours expected of many employees.
The article mentions other instances of "karoshi", which can lead to heart failure, stroke, or suicide.
Miwa Sado was a political reporter for Japan's national public broadcaster NHK covering Tokyo and National Diet elections prior to her death. Japan, and particularly Tokyo, has been noted for the apathy of its voters.
Also at CNN and the Asahi Shimbun.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @11:39AM (2 children)
Old saying,
Work your fingers to the bone, what do you get?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday October 06 2017, @12:21PM (1 child)
If that's what you get, it shows you didn't work enough. So: "Long live the American Dream" (aka dust in your eyes, otherwise business as usual) vs MAGA [vice.com]
The linked - a fair YMMV warning is in order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @05:10PM
It's amusing (in a wry, bitter, wrist-slitting sort of way) that Obama sold his candidacy on Hope! and Change! And a healthy helping of Si, se puede! but the actual sum of what he achieved had basically nothing to do with his electoral platform.
Granted, his electoral platform was fuzzy, and when it wasn't it was kind of weird. Remember the idea to have every high schooler do some kind of community service as a graduation condition? Honestly, I don't think that that would have done much for anybody, but oh well.
Still, I guess he mostly didn't achieve much, but that's not incompatible with Hope!
Maybe Trump is hoping that other people will Make America Great Again while he works on his orange tan.