Working in Japan Japanese employees work long hours. In spite of the Labour Law, it is not unusual for employees to work 60 hours a week. This has led to a phenomenon calledkaro-shi(death from overwork), where corporate employees have been known to spontaneously drop dead of exhaustion. Fo...
From the multiple regression analyses, working hours per day remained as an independent negative factor for the slopes of systolic blood pressure, DBP, and MABP. CONCLUSIONS These results indicate that long working hours are negatively associated with the risk for hypertension in Japanese male white...
Of course, issues related to long working hours, high cost of child rearing, new modern approaches to life and other complex factors; are all tearing apart at the declining birth rate in this country. Sadly, the Japanese government appears reluctant to help people who desire to have more than...
Logistic regression analyses were performed using "sleep duration <6 hours per day" as a dependent variable to examine the association between working hours/overtime hours and short sleep duration. Results: When male participants who worked for >= 7 but <9 hours per day were used as a ...
In 1920 the first May Day demonstration in Tokyo was held. The creation of the Communist Party of Japan (CPJ) was announced in Tokyo on July 15, 1922. The CPJ embarked on a selfless struggle to defend the interests of the working people, to bring about the immediate withdrawal of ...
Considering the effects of type of occupation, working hours and gender, analysis was focused on 295 male blue-collar mere employees working less than 8 hours per day and engaged in daytime work or two-shift work.Scores for Health Practice Index (HPI) and physical exercise of shift workers ...
[23] reported that the odds ratio for not achieving the recommended seven hours of sleep per day are 1.18 times among cat owners vs. non-cat own- ers (95% CI: 1.02-1.37). Although the study participants were highly selective (i.e., pregnant mothers) and the out- come was slightly ...
Japanese-style bathing (JSB), which involves soaking in hot water up to the shoulders in deep bathtubs for a long time in the evening to night, is unique. Many experimental and epidemiological studies and surveys have shown that JSB improve sleep quality
Age, gender and municipality of residence were obtained from the registry of residential addresses of each municipality. Living arrangements (living with others or living alone), educational attainment (years of education), employment status (working hours per week), self-rated health, dog ownership ...
working, crashing, and leaving; and especially ten more of her and Nakajima’s relationship developing, regardless of whether it ultimately succeeds or fails. Had something like this been done, had she been more of a fully-fledged character rather than a ghost, then the movie would have made...