TEPCO employee found dead in apparent suicide

Is this part of Abe's new secrecy law?

Did he jump or was he pushed?

Sad. In our (understandable) hatred of TEPCO, we should all remember that the everyday workers are not responsible for the disasterous decisions made by management. Just sad.

Karoujisatsu?

'Tis indeed sad. Meanwhile management is likely trying to make some excuses about how it had nothing to do with the 'safety' of the plant and working conditions. RIP.

RIP, was it the electricity bill?

I would really like to know the situation to why this happened, what he being pressured to develop new tech or new cleanup solutions like the guy from Toyota that invented the hybrid engines and killed himself because of pressure or was it because "well I work for Tepco".

Does the fact that he killed himself at TEPCO's branch office mean he did it as a protest to TEPCO?

He was just one of the other hundred or so people that commit suicide in Japan every day. It's news because he worked for TEPCO? だから なんだ？

He was just one of the other hundred or so people that commit suicide in Japan every day. It's news because he worked for TEPCO? だから なんだ

radiation fear, perhaps.

I would think it had more due to stress...would you want to work for TEPCO?

Disillusioned, it reminds us that people working for TEPCO are human just like you and me.

Sorry for his family

It's hard enough just being a normal engineer in Japan. My wife used to work for a big engineering company, and the engineers were nicknamed "bachelors", as they had no time to socialise - just endless work.

Add the problematic social situation of working for TEPCO into the mix, and the nastiness of Japanese social exclusion and the conditions for suicide are there in spades.

RIP.

Thanks for all the negativity and explanations for my comment. However, there is nothing in this article to suggest his suicide was work related or health related. For all we know he could have just broken up with his girlfriend. Yeah, he was a TEPCO employee. So what?!??!

However, there is nothing in this article to suggest his suicide was work related or health related.

Where have we heard that one before?

http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/court-rejects-naming-firms-where-employees-died-due-to-overwork#comment_1656505

Oh, and thanks for cheapening life, too. Just another statistic?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb-w0OMNglc

Article is not broad enough to jump to conclusions. There could be a thousand reasons including personal matters.

I wonder if he knew some incriminating information that TEPCO didn't want released to the public. It's a shame that we will probably never know why he really jumped / was pushed.

Some figures on Karoujisatsu in 2010, from Aujourd'hui le Japon:

710 suicides due to fatigue from overwork; (the most literal translation of Karoujisatsu) 587 suicides due to conflict (relations personnelles) at workplace; 478 suicides due to errors commited at work.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karō-jisatsu

Some of you are thumbing down perfectly reasonable comments on how the guy working for TEPCO may not have had anything to do with his decision but are giving thumbs up to conspiracy-theory comments on how he may have been pushed or had incriminating information on TEPCO. Wow! Yeah, just go straight to the tin hat theories and never mind the facts. Oh, that's right. There aren't any in this article about his job being the reason for his suicide so it's probably best to just jump to them, right?

Article is not broad enough to jump to conclusions. There could be a thousand reasons including personal matters.

What would JT be if posters didn't jump to conclusions? We all do it. Because this poor chap was a TEPCO employee people are seeing sinister shadows where there probably are none.

RIP.

Thunderbird2Oct. 25, 2013 - 04:34PM JST What would JT be if posters didn't jump to conclusions? We all do it. Because this poor chap was a TEPCO employee people are seeing sinister shadows where there probably are none.

No, the reason people are confused is because:

There's no suicide note. This is unusual.

The headlines says, "apparent suicide", suggesting that there is some doubt in the matter.

The rooftop was accessible. This is unusual because most Japanese offices lock all rooftop accesses. As an engineer there's no reason he's have keys.

Its a short article, but there are things that make it logical to ask the very simple question, "Did he jump or was he pushed?".

No wild conspiracy theories about TEPCO, just an honest question about whether this was a murder or a suicide.

Interesting article related to Fukushima: http://news.yahoo.com/special-report-help-wanted-fukushima-low-pay-high-050626106--sector.html

So sad, I hate Tepco, but I do feel sorry for this poor engineer, RIP

All TEPCO employees are suffering company wide. Pay cuts of a 1/4 to a 1/3 an no bonuses (friend works for them - I used to envy his 500,000 yen a month salary -not any more) Public scorn even the ones with nothing to do with nuclear power generation. Stress? indeed it's quite understandable. sorry state of affairs.

I sense that something went wrong on that rooftop. Hell, everything else that TEPCO has done has been wrong.

Maybe he realized that it's not under control.

Poor fellow.

MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS TO HIS FAMILY.