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Hope found in lives lost: karoshi and the pursuit of worker rights in Japan
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March 2, 2016
Published Online: 2016-3-2
Published in Print: 2016-3-1
©2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin Boston
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- Frontmatter
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- Introduction: reorienting hopes
- Hope in an ageing Japan: transience and transcendence
- Subculture as social knowledge: a hopeful reading of otaku culture
- Hope found in lives lost: karoshi and the pursuit of worker rights in Japan
- Hope amidst uncertainty: foreign scientists in contemporary Japan
- Hope that sustains: revisiting New Year’s divination at Suwa Taisha
Keywords for this article
overwork death;
karoshi;
overwork suicide (karōjisatsu);
employment practices;
worker rights movements
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Introduction: reorienting hopes
- Hope in an ageing Japan: transience and transcendence
- Subculture as social knowledge: a hopeful reading of otaku culture
- Hope found in lives lost: karoshi and the pursuit of worker rights in Japan
- Hope amidst uncertainty: foreign scientists in contemporary Japan
- Hope that sustains: revisiting New Year’s divination at Suwa Taisha
