【日本】日本的过劳工作使员工步入死亡

Japanese areworking themselves to death--literally

Matsuri Takahashi was just 24 years old and a graduateof prestigious Tokyo University when she leaped to her death from her companydormitory on Christmas Day last year.

Tokyo Labor Bureau investigators ruled her suicidekaroshi - death byoverwork.

The Labor Bureau announced on Oct. 7 that Takahashihad been required to work 100 hours or more of overtime per month for months onend at the prominent Dentsu advertising agency. She often got as little as twohours of sleep a night, rarely had a day off and was ordered by supervisors toreport fewer hours than she actually worked.

It's an all too familiar story in Japan, where employees at nearly one infour companies are at risk of dying from working too many hours, according to agovernment report issued last month.

But Takahashi's case has struck a nerve in Japan, and could help hastenreforms that experts say are long overdue.

    高桥茉莉，24岁，毕业于著名的东京大学，她在去年的圣诞节从公司宿舍跳楼自杀。

    东京劳动局调查人员判定她的自杀原因为过度疲劳导致精神压力过大。

    劳动局10月7日宣布，高桥被要求在知名的电通广告公司每月有超过100个小时的加班。她经常每晚只睡两个小时，很少有休息时间，并且调查发现主管报告上的时间远远小于她的实际工作时间。

    这类故事在日本很常见，根据上个月发布的一份政府报告，近四分之一的公司的员工都有超长时间工作的风险。

    但是高桥的案子在日本引起了轰动，这可以促使专家们尽早提出改革的方案。

（翻译：曹昀杰）

信息来源：

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/10/17/japanese-working-themselves-death--literally/92277952/