Today’s Business Slang is “Karoushi”, meaning “Overwork Death”.

“Karoushi” is used in overseas, too and it means “Death by overwork”.

This type of death is only in Japan.

For your information, “Karoushi line” is defined by Japanese government is 80 hours overtime work per month.  If you overwork 80 hours /month for 2-6 months, it will cause your health trouble.  And this is legally admitted.

30 year ago, we used to overwork 100 hours/month in Japan, but nobody died due to the overwork.  Things have changed as time goes by.