So far, however, the results have not been too successful. In 2006, according to official figures, 355 workers fell sick after working excessively. Of these, 147 died. The figure represents a nearly eight percent over the previous year. For Dr. Katsuo Nishiyama, Shiga University in Kyoto, evil is due to the severity of Japan's culture.

Efforts to rebuild the country after the Second World War that led to an unusual economic expansion, reached to Japanese workers. It should be noted that the phenomenon began to attract attention in the late eighties, when the International Labour Organization (ILO) published the remarkable increase in mortality among men Nipponese between 25 and 60 years of age. These workers, from all walks and ranks, died suddenly, with no trace of previous diseases, only slept in the subway and did not wake up or slumped in their workplaces. For the Japanese medical reasons are simple: their bodies stopped working because of overwork Manuel Crespo adds us that within the Japanese production system, recess, breaks or toilet breaks to wipe the sweat are considered a waste of time, "Nishiyama said in a signed article by Dr. Jeffrey V. Johnson, Johns Hopkins University, U.S..

Within the Japanese production system, recess, the toilet breaks or breaks to wipe the sweat is considered a waste of time, "Nishiyama said in a signed article by Dr. Jeffrey V. Johnson, Johns Hopkins University, U.S… This structure is usually thought creates a gap between care and personal income that employees can not see, the experts assert, and that makes them literally worked to death.