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The Japanese leader only sleeps two to four hours a night—and has personally pledged to ditch work-life balance in favor of “work, work, work.” ...

Japan’s longstanding culture of overwork is running up against its shrinking workforce. Japanese workplaces have historically thrived “on unpaid overtime, presenteeism, and coercion,” the Financial ...

That was Japan’s new far-right Prime Minister’s victory speech vow. Sanae Takaichi was talking about how she’d lead her own party. Not reform the nation’s notoriously long work weeks. But the comments ...

Japan's new PM has vowed to "work, work, work," even on two hours of sleep. Critics warn her stance could revive toxic overtime culture and reverse progress on reducing deaths from overwork. Japanese ...

A Japanese court ruled on Monday that Kansai Medical University Hospital in Osaka Prefecture should pay $1.1-million in compensation to the parents of an intern who the court determined had died of ...

TOKYO, July 18 (Reuters) - A Japanese woman hit out at corporate bosses this week, after her restaurant manager son died of a brain haemorrhage having done 200 hours of overtime in a month. The case ...