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8 Responses to “Upper Intermediate Lesson #19 - Karoushi - Working to Death 3”
Friday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, this is quite a serious topic, isn’t it?
Friday at 7:04 pm
I have just read an short article about it in my newspaper. A worker of Toyota died after he made 106 mostly unpaid hours of overtime in his last month (and thats just the amount the court recognized i guess)
I hope its just the numbers of approved cases of karoushi that goes up, and not the actual amount of karoushi cases.
Saturday at 12:13 am
Thank you for a most interesting lesson!
I like the vocabulary related to statistics. I’m a researcher, so these vocabulary items will come in very handy!
Saturday at 12:20 am
In the vocabulary for statistics, all is in percent.
Is there no use of wari (一割 二割)?
And I only found this 2 forms in the dictionary: are sanwari, yonwari…used ?
Saturday at 3:47 am
字版にさかてにとっての家事が書いてありません
Saturday at 4:12 am
[いいことをする]が漢字版に載っています。けど[さかてにとって]はかたかなばんとろうまじに書いています。
Saturday at 11:47 am
nice lesson ~
Saturday at 2:19 pm
Fantastic series so far. And so topical as well just read the Yomiuri this morning (Japanese version) and they were discussing this exact topic. Unfortunately for me I hadn’t studied this lesson until now and asked myself the exact same question 労働災害は何ですか。I took a guess while I was reading it and luckily I guessed right.
Here is a link to the article http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/news/20080523-OYT1T00659.htm
It seems that things are getting worse
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