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Must Read: Japan's Killer Work Ethic Is Killing Japense

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hardblue: Death from too much work is so commonplace in Japan that there is a word for it -- karoshi.There is a national karoshi hotline, a karoshi self-help book and a law that funnels money to the widow and children of a salaryman (it's almost always...

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Death from too much work is so commonplace in Japan that there is a word for it -- karoshi.There is a national karoshi hotline, a karoshi self-help book and a law that funnels money to the widow and children of a salaryman (it's almost always a man) who works himself into an early karoshi for the good of his company.

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Death from too much work is so commonplace in Japan that there is a word for it -- karoshi.There is a national karoshi hotline, a karoshi self-help book and a law that funnels money to the widow and children of a salaryman (it's almost always a man) who works himself into an early karoshi for the good of his company.

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