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Deaths from Overwork Plague Japan

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Jan 23, 2017
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In the spring of 2015 Matsuri Takahashi, 24, joined the Dentsu advertising agency, one of the Japan’s most prestigious but demanding corporations, as a young recruit. Within a few months she was complaining to friends how exhausted she was.

“I want to die” she confided in a social media message to friends. And on Christmas day in 2015 she did just that, …

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