KAROSHI

The offices of one of Japan’s biggest ad agencies have been raided after a young woman committed suicide due to karoshi (chronic overwork).

Ad firm Dentsu is being investigated on suspicion of systematic illegal overtime. The 24-year old, Matsuri Takahashi, was working 100 hours overtime a month when she killed herself last December.

In 2014 around 70 people a day committed suicide in Japan.

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