159 hours overtime in a month at work kills a woman in Japan

A woman in Japan died after logging 159 hours of overtime in 30 days with only two days off, according to labour inspectors.

Miwa Sado, a political journalist for NHK, Japan’s national public broadcasting organisation, suffered a heart failure in July 2013, though her employer made the case public this week, the

Times reports.


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