{"id":10375,"date":"2017-10-11T16:02:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T14:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/11\/tokyo-olympic-stadium-workers-death-follows-190-hours-of-overtime-in-a-month\/"},"modified":"2017-10-11T16:02:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T14:02:07","slug":"tokyo-olympic-stadium-workers-death-follows-190-hours-of-overtime-in-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=10375","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Olympic stadium worker\u2019s death follows 190 hours of overtime in a month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Man logged 90 hours of overtime more than the monthly threshold for karoshi\u2022 Japan again forced to confront work culture after 23-year-old\u2019s deathJapanese labour inspectors have determined that the suicide of a 23-year-old man who worked at Tokyo\u2019s new Olympic stadium construction site stemmed from overwork, and that his family was eligible for government compensation.Hiroshi Kawahito, a lawyer representing the bereaved family, said that the victim, in charge of quality control of materials at the stadium site, recorded 190 hours of overtime in one month before killing himself in March, according to Japan\u2019s NHK public television. The worker had been in the role for less than a year. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2017\/oct\/11\/tokyo-olympics-2020-stadium-worker-death-190-hours-overtime-one-month\" target=\"_blank\">Tokyo Olympic stadium worker\u2019s death follows 190 hours of overtime in a month<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Man logged 90 hours of overtime more than the monthly threshold for karoshi\u2022 Japan again forced to confront work culture after 23-year-old\u2019s deathJapanese labour inspectors have determined that the suicide of a 23-year-old man who worked at Tokyo\u2019s new Olympic stadium construction site stemmed from overwork, and that his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}