A japanese colleague one told me how it wasn't uncommon for people to die of exhaustion on their commute from/to work (usually from). He even joked about how people would drive their car to the roadside and just die, but first get out off the way because that's how polite they are. Sad.
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I haven’t seen or heard this but it sounds plausible. This country is really harsh on people culturally. The change must be initiated via some law I believe .. and it must be enforced or it won’t change anything.
I have no more knowledge than someone bringing up to him after reding something about it and him confirming it. He also said it wasn't rare for people to sleep at the office.
About the legislation, I heard sometime ago they wanted to introduce a law to force companies to promote taking all you holidays, or something along those lines. Apparently, most Japanese won't even take their holidays.
Not sure. I suspect it’s different in urban areas, I live in a rural area and we definitely take our holidays.