Death from overwork.

Hello.

Today i reed this article i found on bbc.com (http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160912-is-there-such-thing-as-death-from-overwork). The article is a about death from overwork and how common this is in Japan.

The Japanese have a term called karoshi, which translate as "death by overwork". If your death reason was karoshi your family will receive an amount of money on $ 20 000 each year from the state and up too $1.600.000 payouts from the company.

In the article we hear about several people that died of karoshi, one man we hear much about is Kenji Hamada. Hamada was an employee at a Tokyo security company, his weeks was based on 15-hours days and a 4 hour long stretch to get to work. One day he was found laying on his desk, his associates thought Hamada was asleep until several hours later they saw he was dead. Hamada died of a heart attack. This was a man at the age of 42 with a wife and a good work ethic, he was good in his job and stood by it.

After the defeat of the second world war was the Japanese worked the longest hours in the world by far, they where workaholics of the highest order. This is why karoshi is so common in Japan.

-Amalie.