3/20/2023 0 Comments Deadly nightmare in japaneseIt was the first time Japanese authorities had ever officially recognised a foreign intern as dying from overwork. Last month the Japanese Labour Standards Office finally made a ruling - Jiang had died of "karoshi" or death from overwork. Under pressure from Lawyer's Network for Trainees, a collective of Japanese lawyers who represent migrant workers and their families, the authorities started an official investigation into Jiang's death. The time card the company submitted showed he did only a relatively small amount of overtime work in the lead up to his death. His co-workers told investigators he did a huge amount of overtime, yet company records showed no such thing. Everything about his life suggested he was a normal, healthy young man with a long life ahead of him.īut several details about Jiang's job at Fuji Electric Industries, where he worked on the metal plating production line, didn't add up. His diet was better than average, he didn't drink alcohol and medical records showed no history of illness. There was no internal or external evidence of injury or disease, and no drugs found in his system.įurther investigation into Jiang's lifestyle and background revealed nothing suspect. The autopsy concluded he had died of sudden heart failure, yet there was no apparent cause. When the ambulance arrived 15 minutes later at the small apartment dorm in Itako City, in Ibaraki prefecture, where the men lived, Jiang was already dead. His two room-mates, also young Chinese men who left their homeland for the dream of a better future in wealthy Japan, woke in the early hours of June 6, 2008, to see their co-worker and friend dying in his bed. Thirty one-year-old Jiang Xiao Dong died screaming in the night a long way from home. A young Chinese worker's death has put the spotlight on the rise of a fatal job trend in Japan.
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