Death by overwork in Japan:Jobs for life (日本の過労死:これがホントの終身雇用) Economist:Dec 19th 2007 | TOKYOJapanese employees are working themselves to death 日本の従業員は死ぬまで働く HARA-KIRI is a uniquely Japanese form of suicide. Its corporate equivalent is karoshi, “death by overwork”. Since this was legally recognised as a cause of death in the 1980s, the number of cases submitted to the government for the designatio