An employee in the Japanese city of Saitama set his company headquarters on fire because he felt stressed and stressed at work.
According to Japanese media, the police arrested the 32-year-old employee, Matsuzawa.
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During the investigation, he confessed to his crime, justifying his actions, saying, “I felt very nervous and pressured at work, so I set fire to the store.”
And the media reported, that at the time of the accident, more than 10 employees, including Matsuzawa and many customers, were in the store, and a 42-year-old employee was injured and taken to hospital.
She explained that Matsuzawa had been working for a year in the store as a delivery and security man, noting that he used incendiary materials to set fire to the place, and that he avoided surveillance cameras while doing so.
It is noteworthy that overwork is a persistent problem that Japanese employees have faced for several decades now.
The term “karoshi”, which means “death by overwork”, was coined in Japan in the 1970s.
In 2017, the death of 31-year-old Japanese journalist Miwa Sado who was found dead in her bed due to cardiac arrest made headlines in Japan.
Labor inspectors discovered during an investigation that Sado clocked 159 hours of overtime and only took two days off in one month. A year earlier, the Japanese Ministry of Labor revealed that it had documented 189 employee deaths due to “karoshi”.