TOKYO - The Japanese government for the first time released a nationwide list of over 300 companies that have violated labor laws, hoping this name-and-shame tactic would help eliminate abuses and ...

HARA-KIRI is a uniquely Japanese form of suicide. Its corporate equivalent is karoshi, “death by overwork”. Since this was legally recognised as a cause of death in the 1980s, the number of cases ...

Yukimi Takahashi warned against moves that could condone longer working hours ahead of the 10th anniversary of the suicide of her overworked daughter. “At a time when ‘karoshi’ (deaths from overwork) ...

Karoshi games have become incredibly popular as a desktop browser-based Flash game for a while now. YoYo Games is bringing the craze to Android this Friday (February 9th) with “Karoshi.” The game ...

There’s a prevalent belief amongst executives, entrepreneurs and professionals that the only way to succeed is to work until the early hours and still get up at 5am to work on weekends and during ...

Actor Giancarlo Esposito, who played Stan Edgar in the Prime Video series The Boys, has joined the cast of Lionsgate’s action thriller feature Karoshi. Esposito garnered popularity for portraying Gus ...

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 ...