Overwork remains a potentially deadly health hazard for many Japanese public school teachers, as long hours and excessive workloads continue to push them beyond safe limits, recent data shows.

A government survey found that 35.2 percent of workers in the arts and entertainment sector put in more than 60 hours a week, ...

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TOKYO, Japan -- The president of top Japanese advertising company Dentsu Inc. said Wednesday he will resign to take responsibility for the suicide of a worker who had clocked massive overtime in her ...

The construction firm employee, who began working on the project in December, clocked 200 hours of overtime in the month. The construction firm employee, who began working on the project in December, ...

TOKYO -- On Christmas Day in 2015, a 24-year-old woman in Japan took her own life after suffering from grueling long working hours at major ad agency Dentsu Inc. A decade after the incident, her ...

When it comes to the future of work, Japan is caught in a tug-of-war. But the country’s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, is signaling a very different approach. The 64-year-old drew scrutiny this ...

A person claiming to be a doctor wrote online that the recent public outcry over the suspected death from overwork of a bakery employee was “selective empathy,” noting that doctors and self-employed ...