269 entitled to workers' compensation for mental disorders

Tuesday 09th June, 06:27 AM JST

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medievaltimes at 08:32 AM JST - 9th June

Is this for the whole country?
bamboohat at 08:34 AM JST - 9th June

is there any other country in the world whose insurance companies will actually pay out due to "death from overwork"?
tkoind2 at 08:46 AM JST - 9th June

Bamboohat. Are there any other modern first world nations that need to have insurance companies pay out due to "death from overwork?' Most countries have rational labor laws with enforcement teeth to assure that people are not made into wage slaves. Japan excels in ignoring the rules it does have and fails utterly to enforce them.

What Japan really needs is for workers to refuse overtime and to band together to demand better work like balance and protections against this kind of blatant labor exploitation.

As for the low number. I think this does not reflect the reality of the working world. We have probably seen 200+ people snap and attack or harm people in the same time period. And at 32,000+ suicides in the past year many of those were no doubt related to work and work related mental illness.

The numbers are low because they are not he whole picture.
alargo at 10:13 AM JST - 9th June

So those who resist or can't handle being overworked are mentally ill. Meanwhile the country is full of freaks who steal underwear, run naked through the parks or stab little kids.

I've met so many freaky people in Japan that now I am afraid of talking to strangers. I guess we'll have to add the overworked to the list.
Mittsu at 10:19 AM JST - 9th June

To be fair, it seems to be pretty easy in Japan to get a certrificate saying you are overworked/nervous/exhausted./stressed or whatever and then stay on the payroll indefinitely. Is a fact that if you offer family/friends/whatever as a reason for coming in late or leaving early then you are met witgh hostility or blank misunderstanding, but if you say you are feeling poorly, then full sympathy/ki o tsukete/surgical masks and all the rest apply. Hypochondria mixed with ridiculous sense of duty = a mixed up bunch of people.
sharky1 at 10:42 AM JST - 9th June

Useless article
stirfry at 12:13 PM JST - 9th June

jeez...a nation of wusses...suck it up and get back to work, like the rest of the world
kirakira25 at 10:58 PM JST - 9th June

jeez...a nation of wusses...suck it up and get back to work, like the rest of the world

18 hours a day? Like the rest of the world? I don't think so.