¡°When you¡¯re in the office 20 hours a day, you don¡¯t understand what life you¡¯re living for anymore. (It¡¯s so pathetic) you come to laugh.¡± ¡ª Twitter post by Matsuri Takahashi, as reported in the Mainichi Shimbun
A week after the above message, Matsuri Takahashi, a 24-year-old first-year worker at Â鶹´«Ã½ largest advertising firm, Dentsu, committed suicide on Dec. 25, 2015, by jumping from a corporate dormitory.
Takahashi¡¯s mother, suspecting that labor conditions played a role in her daughter¡¯s suicide, lodged a formal complaint with a labor standards inspection office in Tokyo¡¯s Minato Ward.
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