Japanese authorities found that nearly 9,000 companies breached overtime laws last year. Employees at these workplaces were working more than 80 hours of overtime a month. It's so common for Japanese ...

Japanese workers are said to be hard working. One of the reasons is the long working hours. So-called full-time employees work some 2,000 hours per year, which is 400 hours longer than their ...

A Japanese town has been ordered to pay 10.9m yen (£56,581) in overtime to public servants made to start work five minutes early each day. On 26 February 2021, all 146 government employees in Ginan, ...

Tokyo (CNN) — The family of a 26-year-old doctor in Japan who died by suicide last year after working more than 200 hours of overtime in a single month have pleaded for change in a nation long plagued ...

OIZUMI, Gunma -- While many foreigners work in this east Japan town, the cost of hiring them is increasing year by year. What exactly is the reason for local employers to continue hiring them? Some ...

Japan’s trucking industry is facing stricter rules from next spring that risk triggering a nationwide wave of delivery delays affecting everything from factory component supplies to fresh food on ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Probes by Japanese authorities into overwork complaints at 24,042 workplaces revealed that 37% of ...