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Top managers ordered to pay for employee's death from overwork

KYOTO, Japan - Satoru Fukiage (L) and his wife Takako, whose son Motoyasu died in 2007 while employed at an outlet of major restaurant chain Nihonkai Shoya, speaks to reporters in Kyoto, on May 25, 2010, after the Kyoto District Court recognized their son as having died of overwork and ordered Nihonkai Shoya and its four top managers to pay them about 78.6 million yen in damages. The court's decision was the first to find the top management of a major business corporation liable to pay damages in a suit involving the death from overwork of an employee. (Kyodo)