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Check out this poor bastard. Only 30 and dead from over work, a problem so common in Japan it has a name and a legal remedy. Others aren’t ‘so lucky;’ in 2002, six hundred and fifty suicides there were deemed work related. Japanese ‘salary men’ are clocking 100-160 of over time per month with email, black berries and home offices all helping to make work inescapable. Probably on top of all that after-work drinking they’re forced to do to schmooze clients.
Throw off your blackberries, America (and Japan). We have nothing to lose but…ok, our jobs. But what good is a job and no life?
