woman in Japan dead because of 159 hrs of overtime

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 04:18 PM

woman in Japan dead because of 159 hrs of overtime

Tokyo Oct 6: A woman in Japan died after working overtime for 159 hours in 30 days with only two days off.Miwa Sado, a political journalist for NHK, Japan's national public broadcasting organization, suffered a heart failure in July 2013. 31-year-old Sado died just three days after reporting on a local election in the House of Councillors.

Masahiko Yamauchi, a senior official at the broadcaster, said her death was a "problem for our organisation as a whole, including the labor system and how elections are covered".

A case was filed against the organization and the report was made public.However, the report further mentioned that the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration has been seeking to improve working conditions in the country.

According to a national survey, one-fifth of the country's workforce are at risk of karoshi - death from overwork - since they clock more than 80 hours extra work time each month.