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Takarazuka Revue resumes performing

Fans enter Takarazuka Grand Theater in Takarazuka in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 1, 2023, as the all-female theater troupe Takarazuka Revue resumes performing after a two-month suspension due to the death of a 25-year-old actress, suspected to have taken her own life after overwork and bullying within the troupe.

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Takarazuka Revue resumes performing

Fans enter Takarazuka Grand Theater in Takarazuka in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 1, 2023, as the all-female theater troupe Takarazuka Revue resumes performing after a two-month suspension due to the death of a 25-year-old actress, suspected to have taken her own life after overwork and bullying within the troupe.

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Takarazuka theater chairman at press conference in Osaka

Kenshi Koba, chairman of Japan's all-female musical theater company Takarazuka Revue, bows in apology at a press conference in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan on Nov. 14, 2023, over the recent death of one of its actresses, who was said to have committed suicide due to overwork and bullying within her troupe.

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Takarazuka theater chairman at press conference in Osaka

Kenshi Koba (C), chairman of Japan's all-female musical theater company Takarazuka Revue, speaks at a press conference in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan on Nov. 14, 2023. He said he would step down over the recent death of one of its actresses, who was said to have committed suicide due to overwork and bullying within her troupe.

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Takarazuka theater chairman at press conference in Osaka

Kenshi Koba (C), chairman of Japan's all-female musical theater company Takarazuka Revue, speaks at a press conference in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan on Nov. 14, 2023. He said he would step down over the recent death of one of its actresses, who was said to have committed suicide due to overwork and bullying within her troupe.

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Takarazuka theater chairman at press conference in Osaka

Kenshi Koba, chairman of Japan's all-female musical theater company Takarazuka Revue, speaks at a press conference in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan on Nov. 14, 2023. He said he would step down over the recent death of one of its actresses, who was said to have committed suicide due to overwork and bullying within her troupe.

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Clerks Protest In Front Of The Palais De Justice - Paris

Court clerks protest against the low increases in their income and their overwork, in front of the Paris Palais de Justice on the Ile de la Cite in Paris, France on June 29, 2023, a few days before the strike notice for July 3. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Clerks Protest In Front Of The Palais De Justice - Paris

Court clerks protest against the low increases in their income and their overwork, in front of the Paris Palais de Justice on the Ile de la Cite in Paris, France on June 29, 2023, a few days before the strike notice for July 3. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Clerks Protest In Front Of The Palais De Justice - Paris

Court clerks protest against the low increases in their income and their overwork, in front of the Paris Palais de Justice on the Ile de la Cite in Paris, France on June 29, 2023, a few days before the strike notice for July 3. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fundoshi comes back as cool underwear

TOKYO, Japan - Keiji Nakagawa, 35-year-old representative of the +charming! fundoshi marketer and head of the Japan Fundoshi Association, is interviewed by Kyodo News in Tokyo on June 15, 2012. Nakagawa said he first tried traditional Japanese fundoshi underwear when he fell ill due to overwork, and has been sleeping better and regaining his strength since he began wearing them.

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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.

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Kin of Chinese man seek compensation for his death from overwork

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyer Shoichi Ibusuki (L) holds up a photo of a daughter of Jiang Xiaodong, a Chinese man who died of heart failure last year in Ibaraki Prefecture, during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 7. Jiang's relatives filed for compensation at a local labor standards inspection office the same day, claiming that his long working hours as a vocational trainee at a plating company in the prefecture caused his death.

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High court upholds ruling linking overwork, employee's death

NAGOYA, Japan - Miho Suzuki speaks to reporters in Nagoya's Naka Ward on March 15 after the Nagoya High Court upheld a lower court ruling on her claim that overwork led to the death of her husband Tatsuo in November 1989. The high court concluded overwork at Sumitomo Densetsu Co. aggravated Tatsuo's asthma and led to his death.

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Dentsu admits responsibility in 'karoshi' case

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's largest ad agency, Dentsu Inc., on June 23 admitted its liability in the 1991 suicide from overwork of a 24-year-old employee, Ichiro Oshima, and will pay some 168 million yen in compensation to the man's parents in an out-of-court settlement. Oshima's father, Hisamitsu, 71, tells a press conference the same day, ''My son's dignity was fully restored. I'm satisfied with the settlement.'' His lawyers said this is the first ''karoshi'' (death from overwork) case in which a company admitted its liability and reached an out-of-court settlement.

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Premier Obuchi hospitalized

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, shown in this file photo, has been hospitalized since the early morning of April 2 after falling ill from overwork. Government sources said April 3 the hospitalization of Obuchi, 62, at Juntendo Medical Center in Tokyo is likely to be prolonged because of diagnosis and treatment. This photo was taken April 1.

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Police guard hospital where Obuchi staying

TOKYO, Japan - Police on April 2 guard Tokyo's Juntendo Medical Center, where Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi was hospitalized earlier in the day due to illness from overwork.

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Aoki says Premier Obuchi in hospital from overwork

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Mikio Aoki is surrounded by reporters after a late-night press conference April 2 in which he said Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi was hospitalized early in the day due to overwork. The top government spokesman said the premier was taken to a hospital in Tokyo around 1 a.m. and was undergoing tests.

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Amazon Japan delivery drivers form union, claiming overwork

A group of 10 people working as freelance delivery drivers for Amazon.com Inc.'s Japan unit have unionized and handed over a letter to the online shopping giant's Tokyo headquarters demanding that their poor working conditions be corrected, union members said Monday. The union claimed that, despite working as freelance drivers, Amazon Japan G.K. effectively controls their work hours by sending delivery instructions via smartphones and that outsourcing of delivery operations is a way to avoid signing labor contracts. Lawyers and supporters of the group said this is the first time Amazon delivery drivers have unionized in Japan.

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Police guard hospital where Obuchi staying

TOKYO, Japan - Police on April 2 guard Tokyo's Juntendo Medical Center, where Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi was hospitalized earlier in the day due to illness from overwork.

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Families speak of children's deaths from overwork before students

Lawyer Toshimasa Yamashita teaches junior high school students in Tokyo on Feb. 6, 2017, how to cope with work-related problems they may encounter in the future, as deaths from overwork come under a renewed spotlight. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Premium Friday" starts amid hopes to boost spending, cut overwork

A Daimaru department store worker poses with brochures in Tokyo on Feb. 17, 2017, to let customers know the Feb. 24 launch of the government-led "Premium Friday" campaign encouraging workers to leave the office early on the last Friday of each month to rein in overwork and boost spending. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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M'bishi Electric referred to prosecutors for alleged overwork

Photo taken Dec. 12, 2016, shows a former employee of Mitsubishi Electric Corp. who became mentally ill due to overwork and was laid off that year. The place of photography is withheld based on his request. Japan's labor ministry referred the electronics maker to prosecutors on Jan. 11, 2017, on suspicion of violating the labor standards law by making him work far longer than parameters set in a labor-management agreement. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dentsu president to resign over employee suicide

Dentsu Inc. President Tadashi Ishii attends a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 28, 2016, after the labor ministry referred the advertising agency and one of its executives to prosecutors over an alleged overwork-related suicide of a 24-year-old employee. Ishii said he will step down in January 2017 to take responsibility. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dentsu president to resign over employee suicide

Dentsu Inc. President Tadashi Ishii attends a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 28, 2016, after the labor ministry referred the advertising agency and one of its executives to prosecutors over an alleged overwork-related suicide of a 24-year-old employee. Ishii said he will step down in January 2017 to take responsibility. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dentsu president to resign over employee suicide

Tadashi Ishii, president of advertising giant Dentsu Inc., bows in apology at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 28, 2016. Ishii said he will step down in January 2017 to take responsibility for an alleged overwork-related suicide of a 24-year-old female employee. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Probe into overwork at Dentsu after employee suicide

Undated photo shows Dentsu Inc.'s head office in Tokyo. Japan's labor authorities inspected four subsidiaries of the advertising giant on Oct. 18, 2016, following the suicide of a 24-year-old female employee in December 2015 due to overwork. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Death of ex-Dentsu employee recognized as overwork

Yukimi Takahashi (R), mother of Matsuri Takahashi, a 24-year-old Dentsu Inc. employee who committed suicide in 2015, attends a press conference with her attorney Hiroshi Kawahito in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2016, after her daughter's suicide was deemed to have been caused by overwork. The labor ministry has conducted on-site inspections at the Dentsu headquarters and some of its subsidiaries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Labor office set to recognize overwork death of foreign intern

ITAKO, Japan - This photo taken on July 2, 2010, shows a metal processing firm called Fuji Denka Kogyo in the city of Itako, Ibaraki Prefecture, where Jiang Xiaodong, a Chinese national, worked as an intern under a government-authorized training program and died in June 2008. The Kashima labor standards inspection office decided to recognize his death as a result of working long hours illegally. (Kyodo)

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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)

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Fukushima nuke workers at risk of depression, overwork death

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on April 16, 2011, shows instant noodles and retort-packed food stored at the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant, as meals for workers engaged in stabilizing the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant. Takeshi Tanigawa, a doctor who oversaw the workers, warned many of them face risk of depression or death from overwork, as well as a poor diet. (PHOTO COURTESY of TAKESHI TANIGAWA) (Kyodo)

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Fukushima nuke workers at risk of depression, overwork death

TOKYO, Japan - Takeshi Tanigawa of the Ehime University School of Medicine, engages in medical examination of workers undertaking stabilization efforts at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, at the Fukushima Daini plant, some 10 kilometers away from the troubled site, on April 17, 2011. Tanigawa warned the workers are at risk of depression or death from overwork as they undertake dangerous tasks. (PHOTO COURTESY OF TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER CO.) (Kyodo)

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Ex-Disneyland dancer's lawsuit over overwork

Former Tokyo Disneyland dancer Hidenori Okawa speaks at the Chiba prefectural government's building in Chiba, Japan, on March 19, 2019. The 51-year-old has filed a lawsuit with the Chiba District Court seeking a total of 154 million yen in damages from the park's operating company and his former boss for having him overwork and struggle with knee pain. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Overwork in Japan

Labor experts discuss ways to eliminate deaths from overwork at a meeting of a health ministry panel in Tokyo on May 31, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gov't approves labor reform bill

Japanese Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Katsunobu Kato (C) speaks to reporters on April 6, 2018, in Tokyo following the government's approval of a bill aimed at addressing Japan's chronic overwork problem. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gov't approves labor reform bill

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) attends a Cabinet meeting with other ministers in Tokyo on April 6, 2018. The government approved a bill aimed at addressing Japan's chronic overwork problem. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dentsu aims to cut overall working hours by 20% to fix overwork woes

Toshihiro Yamamoto, president of Japan's leading ad agency Dentsu Inc., bows in apology after announcing the company's basic plan to improve working conditions during a news conference in Tokyo on July 27, 2017. Yamamoto announced the plan following the suicide of a new recruit due to excessive working hours. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Labor union gives de facto OK to white-collar overtime exemption

Rikio Kozu, the head of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, known as Rengo, meets with reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on July 13, 2017, following talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Japan's largest labor union gave the green light to a long-stalled government plan to introduce merit-based pay system for highly skilled jobs, on condition that tougher overwork prevention measures are imposed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Labor union gives de facto OK to white-collar overtime exemption

Rikio Kozu, the head of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, known as Rengo, meets with reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on July 13, 2017, following talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Japan's largest labor union gave the green light to a long-stalled government plan to introduce merit-based pay system for highly skilled jobs, on condition that tougher overwork prevention measures are imposed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dentsu to face open trial over high-profile overwork case

File photo taken in November 2016 shows the Tokyo headquarters of Dentsu Inc. The Tokyo Summary Court decided on July 12, 2017, that the leading advertising agency will go on trial in an ordinary court over suspected labor practice violations following the high-profile suicide of one of its new recruits due to excessive working hours. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Trainee doctor in Japan found to have killed herself from overwork

Photo taken June 1, 2017, shows Niigata City General Hospital in Niigata, Japan. Labor authorities have recognized that a 37-year-old trainee doctor at the hospital killed herself in January 2016 because of overwork, her family's representative said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Premium Friday" starts amid hopes to boost spending, cut overwork

People raise their glasses during an event in Tokyo's Marunouchi district in the afternoon on Feb. 24, 2017, as a government-orchestrated campaign encouraging workers to leave the office early on the last Friday of each month kicked off the same day. The "Premium Friday" initiative is aimed at shoring up tepid consumption and winding back the traditional Japanese practice of long working hours. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Premium Friday" starts amid hopes to boost spending, cut overwork

Employees of Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co. get ready to leave their office in Tokyo at 3 p.m. on Feb. 24, 2017, as a government-orchestrated campaign encouraging workers to leave the office early on the last Friday of each month kicked off the same day. The "Premium Friday" initiative is aimed at shoring up tepid consumption and winding back the traditional Japanese practice of long working hours. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dentsu to promote Senior Vice President Yamamoto to president

Dentsu Inc. Senior Vice President Toshihiro Yamamoto, 58, seen in this photo, will be promoted to president, the Japanese advertising company decided on Jan. 19, 2017. Yamamoto will replace Tadashi Ishii, who will step down on Jan. 23 to take responsibility for the overwork-related suicide of a young employee. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mitsubishi Electric president vows to stop excessive overtime

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. President Masaki Sakuyama speaks at a news conference in Osaka on Jan. 19, 2017. Sakuyama pledged to never allow employees to be forced to work excessive overtime, after the labor ministry referred the company to prosecutors the previous week in connection with an overwork case. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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M'bishi Electric referred to prosecutors for alleged overwork

Photo taken on Dec. 12, 2016 shows a former employee of Mitsubishi Electric Corp. who became mentally ill due to overwork and was laid off that year. Japan's labor ministry referred the electronics maker to prosecutors on Jan. 11, 2017, on suspicion of violating the labor standards law by making him work far longer than parameters set in a labor-management agreement. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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M'bishi Electric referred to prosecutors for alleged overwork

The building housing the Tokyo headquarters of Mitsubishi Electric Corp. is pictured on Jan. 11, 2017. Japan's labor ministry referred the electronics maker to prosecutors the same day on suspicion of forcing excessive overtime on a male employee who subsequently became mentally ill and was laid off. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dentsu president to resign over employee suicide

Dentsu Inc. President Tadashi Ishii attends a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 28, 2016, after the labor ministry referred the advertising agency and one of its executives to prosecutors over an alleged overwork-related suicide of a 24-year-old employee. Ishii said he will step down in January 2017 to take responsibility. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dentsu president to resign over employee suicide

Tadashi Ishii, president of advertising giant Dentsu Inc., bows in apology at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 28, 2016. Ishii said he will step down in January 2017 to take responsibility for an alleged overwork-related suicide of a 24-year-old female employee. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dentsu president to resign over employee suicide

Tadashi Ishii, president of advertising giant Dentsu Inc., speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 28, 2016. Ishii said he will step down in January 2017 to take responsibility for an alleged overwork-related suicide of a 24-year-old female employee. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan labor ministry unveils measures to prevent death from overwork

Yasuhisa Shiozaki, Japan's minister of health, labor and welfare, speaks in a meeting in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2016. The ministry unveiled emergency measures the same day aimed at preventing workers from dying or committing suicide due to overwork, following the suicide of a female worker at advertising giant Dentsu Inc. in December 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo