Thirty percent of young Japanese civil servants have broken through the dead line of work: more than 80 hours a month

According to a survey released by Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun on the 25th, Taro Kono, the Minister of Administrative Reform of Japan

released a survey at the same day that among the civil servants working in Japan’s central government departments, the overtime hours of young civil servants are being extended, and 30% of civil servants in their 20s have exceeded the overtime hours.

Work to death line, that is, overtime work more than 80 hours a month.