How is “Karoshi” lookt up on by Society nowdays?

5 comments

1. Karoushi (過労死) is seen as a social problem. So people don’t like talking about it, because it tends to hit too close to home, I think.

2. You idolize literal death by overwork? What is wrong with you?

3. Why would you idolize something like this?

4. If you can only find meaning in your own work that’s one thing. Don’t glamorize a mental health epidemic caused by greedy, unregulated companies exploiting the Japanese workforce.

   Idk why people have to romanticize Japan so much to this kind of extreme…

5. 過労死 literally translates to ‘death by overwork’. It’s not a concept to be idolised, but a term used to define a social ill. Even the way it’s formulated is similar in fashion to ‘death by starvation’ (飢餓死) or ‘death by illness’ (病死); there is nothing positive about it at all.