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過労死

かろうし

death from overwork

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Examples

  1. 過労死が社会問題になった。

    かろうしがしゃかいもんだいになった。

    Death from overwork became a social problem.

  2. 長時間労働の末に過労死した社員がいる。

    ちょうじかんろうどうのすえにかろうししたしゃいんがいる。

    There was an employee who died of overwork after long hours.

  3. 彼の残業時間は過労死ラインをはるかに超えていた。

    かれのざんぎょうじかんはかろうしらいんをはるかにこえていた。

    His overtime hours were far past the threshold associated with death from overwork.

Common patterns

過労死ライン
the overwork-death threshold (of overtime hours)
過労死を防ぐ
to prevent death from overwork
過労死の労災認定
official recognition of overwork death as work-related

Memory tip

A Japanese coinage that entered English as 'karoshi'. It is a legal-administrative term as much as a social one — 過労死ライン refers to a specific monthly overtime figure used in compensation decisions.

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