This is One Way We Do Not Want to be Like the Japanese
July 16, 2008 by Liberty Kontranowski
Filed under Across the Pond, Death, Extreme, Prevention, Stress, Weird News, Your Body, men's health
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The Japanese – an efficient, healthful group of people. People rooted in culture. People who cherish their elders. People who keel over from being overworked.
Say what?
Yes, it’s true. While America is sometimes looked at as slovenly and over-privileged, our Japanese pals are working so hard, they’re launching themselves into the grave. This has become such an epidemic, in fact, that it even has a name: karoshi.
For example, there was a poor fellow, a 45-year-old chief engineer for Toyota, who worked an additional 114 hours of overtime per month (overtime!). That’s equivalent to about …read more
