Death from Overwork: is This Job More Important Than Life? (translation Record)
About This Novel
Overtime work, workplace bullying, mental depression... "Escape" is not shameful. You only live once! The term "karoshi" originated in Japanese and has been widely circulated since the 1980s. Although more than 30 years have passed, many people in Japan today are still killed by heavy work. If the work is too hard, you can take a vacation or resign. When you first start working and are in good physical and mental shape, you will be able to see these options. However, making a decision is not a simple matter. Losing your source of income, not wanting to worry your parents, not finding the next job, all kinds of reasons will make you endure and continue working, so you will be overworked, and your vision will become narrower and narrower. Unknowingly, it is so narrow that people forget that there are options other than continuing to work. As a result, there is no way to escape from the current life, and you will be trapped by the idea that "you will be comfortable if you die", which makes people lose their normal judgment. This book is based on the special collection of karoshi cases published by the "Asahi Shimbun". The author selected 11 representative cases and conducted in-depth interviews with these 11 bereaved families to reveal the true situation of the karoshi problem in Japan's workplace. What kind of mood do people who fall at their jobs have to work hard? How did they end up struggling? In what kind of shadow will the family members left behind spend the rest of their lives? Why are there more and more cases of death from overwork and sudden death in society now? The author narrates cases and analyzes phenomena from several aspects such as medical treatment, legal concepts, and social environment, and contributes this documentary literature that restores the painful truth to the world.
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