NAGOYA – The Nagoya District Court ruled Friday that a Toyota Motor Corp. employee died from overwork in 2002, rescinding a labor ministry decision that deprived his family of pension benefits.
The three-judge panel found that Kenichi Uchino died Feb. 9, 2002, at age 30 after working about 106 hours of overtime in one month until the day before his death.
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