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Japan: Filipino trainee’s death ruled from overwork, a first since 2011
The death of a 27-year-old Filipino in 2014, who was working 78.5 to 122.5 hours of overtime a month, was ruled as death by overwork by the labor ministry's Gifu Labor Standard Inspection Office in August. It marked the first such case among foreign trainees in Japan after the government began collecting data in fiscal 2011.