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Japan’s shrinking labor force is finding new ways to fight karōshi — ‘death by overwork’

January 10, 2019Health

One Toyko company has started playing “Eye of the Tiger” at quitting time and last year, the government placed a cap on overtime hours, but workers suffer from a labor shortage that causes too much work for each worker.

Naohiro Kimura is founding editor of the "Hikikomori News," for people like him who are shut-ins who have trouble leaving their homes. Japan estimates there are about a half million "hikikomori" (shut-ins) but Kimura thinks the number is much higher.

In Japan, there’s a newspaper by people who couldn’t leave their homes

April 11, 2018Culture
A screen shot from Miki Dezaki's YouTube video about racism in Japan.

How a Japanese American burst Japan’s bubble on racism

May 11, 2015Culture

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