• Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016
Dentsu Employee's Suicide Underscores Perils Of Overwork In Japan
  • TOKYO (AP)
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Matsuri Takahashi's dream career at Japan's top ad agency, Dentsu, ended with her suicide as her overtime pushed past 100 hours a month.

"I'm emotionless and only wish to sleep," she wrote, exhausted and depressed, in a Twitter post in October 2015, six months after starting the job. On...

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