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31 Jul 2017

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Japan Times (Jiji, Kyodo)

Japan: Suicide of Olympic stadium worker should be deemed karoshi: lawyer

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A young construction worker hired to build the new National Stadium, the main venue for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, committed suicide in March, a lawyer representing his relatives said. In the month before the 23-year-old man died, his overtime was found to have surpassed 200 hours. His family has filed a petition with a Tokyo labor standards inspection office to have the death certified as a case of karoshi (death by overwork), claiming he developed depression from exhaustion and killed himself as a result.