Parents of young workers who died or killed themselves due to overwork have been traveling across Japan to speak about these tragic deaths to students.
The encounters are sponsored by the government, which is seeking to tackle the widespread problem of excessive working hours.
"My son had a strong sense of responsibility and worked past midnight for half of each month. He once worked for 37 hours without a rest," Michiyo Nishigaki said of her son, a systems engineer at a Kanagawa Prefecture information technology company who died in January 2006 at the age of 27 after overdosing on an antidepressant.