Japanese Work Culture
Japanese Culture and Film, Autumn, 2022
October 25th, Tuesday
Today's Film
To Each His Own (2017)
JPN “Chotto Imakara Shigoto Yametekuru”
Lit- “I’m just going to quit my job”
Director : Narushima, Izuru
Original :a novel titled same
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What do you know about
Japanese work Culture?
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1. Karoshi (Death due to Overwork）
▷ Occupational sudden mortality
▷ The most common medical causes of Karoshi
- heart attack
- strokes
- suicide
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過労死
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Brain disease / Heart Failure due to Overwork
case
2000 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Blue : Total number of cases acknowledged disease caused by overwork
Orange : Number of death due to overwork ”Karoshi”
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
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Mental disorder due to Overwork
Blue : Total number of cases acknowledged mental disorder caused by overwork
Orange : Number of suicide acknowleded “Karoshi”
case
2000 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
24-year old female employee
committed suicide after having
been working up to 105 hours
overtime in the previous month.
Japanese authorities brought
charges against the company,
Dentsu, but it is unusual.
Famous Cases
31-year old journalist
died due to heart failure. SHe
logged 159 hours of overtime and
and took only two days off in the
month.
She was working at the country’s
public broadcaster, NHK.
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2. Black Kigyo (Black company)
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▷ Forces excessive working hours
▷ Often without overtime pay
▷ Harasses and/or abuses employees
▷ Threaten employees with disrepute when they
choose to leave the company
ブラック企業
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Black Company Awards　
Nominated companies in the past
- Dentsu
- Mitsubishi Electric Melco Semiconductor Engineering
Corporation
- Seven-Eleven Japan
- Rakuten
　
etc...
3. Many types of Harassment
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3. Many types of Harassment
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▷ Sexual harassment (Seku-hara)
▷ Power harassment (Pawa-hara)
▷ Moral harassment (Mora-hara)
▷ Age harassment　
▷ Maternity harassment (Mata-hara)
▷ Paternity harassment (Pata-hara)