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Roll the dice with employees apologising in the windows of office tower blocks late at night.
The top requests for implementation would benefit not only foreign workers, but Japanese workers as well.
Less overtime for some workers means more for others if no one’s changing how much total work needs to be done.
Tokyo’s last trains are too early for many travelers and partiers, but they’re a God-send for overworked office employees.
Boyfriend cancels date when he can’t get time off from work, but his awesome girlfriend figures out how to bring the strawberry patch to him.
Your company is paying for you to take a pleasure trip! Awesome! You’ll be spending all weekend with your boss and coworkers! Not so awesome.
When you’re leaving the office before your coworkers, you don’t tell them “Sayonara,” you tell them “I’m being rude.”
The life of the stressed-out main character in the live-action Winnie the Pooh film is one of leisure compared to many Japanese adults’.
Shining Monday initiative sounds great for anyone who likes to party on Sunday night, or just would rather not be working on Monday morning.
In the busiest city in a country famous for working employees to death, Tokyo Workers hopes to help people find the work/life balance they desire.
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