Izuru Narushima's "To Each His Own" is a serious treatment of the theme of "black companies" that flirts with fantasy in its first half but shades to heart-warming melodrama in its second.
There are so many reasons to hate your job, if you're lucky enough to have one. The top four, according to Spa! magazine, are: stagnant salaries; a sense of being underappreciated and underevaluated; an overriding, unfocused anxiety; and a lost sense of purpose. Sixteen additional ...
The mother of former Dentsu employee Matsuri Takahashi, who committed suicide last December after working over 100 hours of overtime in one month, urges the advertising giant to carry out real reform and called on all employees to change their mindsets.
Advertising giant Dentsu Inc. has won the Most Evil Corporation of the Year Award in recognition of its culture of overwork and harassment, journalists and rights activists announce.
The Japanese have no clear term to describe the concept of work-life balance, but they do have one to describe the notion of dying for your company: karoshi. Karoshi made headlines around the world this year after the suicide of a Dentsu Inc. employee was ...
"When you're in the office 20 hours a day, you don't understand what life you're living for anymore. (It's so pathetic) you come to laugh." — Twitter post by Matsuri Takahashi, as reported in the Mainichi Shimbun A week after the above message, Matsuri ...
Ad giant Dentsu Inc. and courier company Sagawa Express Co., where employees committed suicide, were among this year’s nominees.
Rather than relying on foreign "trainees" to compensate for labor shortages, Japan should establish apprenticeship programs to give citizens needed skills.
It's spring, and the attention of journalists in Japan turns to new university graduates who will soon become productive members of society. In recent years, the recruitment dance has merited closer scrutiny. Even as the labor situation has become a seller's market, issues persist ...
On Dec. 15, the operator of Japanese-style pubs Watami Co. reached a settlement with the parents of a former employee who killed herself due to overwork. In the settlement, Watami admitted that the female employee's death was caused by excessive work, said Kazunari Tamaki, a ...
2015 was a pretty gloomy year worldwide. And the same could be said for life on the archipelago.
"Black companies" are exploiting the university students who work part-time for them — a practice that is taking a toll on their studies.
