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Japan Tells Its Workers to Take More Vacation
Death from overwork is still a problem in Japan
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Japan wants its workers to take more holidays and work fewer hours to cut down the number of people pushing themselves into an early grave.
Decades after "karoshi," death from overwork, entered the Japanese lexicon, the government is still battling to get control of the problem. Leave entitlements and national holidays have increased, but the Japanese still shun vacations and the number of work-related suicides is little changed over the past decade.