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Japanese not enough? Try another one of our 8 languages and get 50% off the subscription! Do you feel overworked? Think you might be working yourself to death? In Japan, people really do, quite literally, work themselves to death (karōshi). In this lesson, we talk about the contributing factors in Japanese society that cause karōshi. It may seem unimaginable, but it’s a serious reality of the Japanese lifestyle.
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If you want to sound articulate, you’ll need the useful Japanese phrases wake ni wa ikanai and ~te kara de wa osoi. These are useful grammatical constructions if you plan to do business in Japan (and subsequently work yourself to death, lol).

Do you feel overworked? Think you might be working yourself to death? In Japan, people really do, quite literally, work themselves to death (karōshi). In this lesson, we talk about the contributing factors in Japanese society that cause karōshi. It may seem unimaginable, but it’s a serious reality of the Japanese lifestyle.
If you’re studying for JLPT1 or JLPT2, you’ll need to know how to use naninani wo ii koto ni… suru, which is used to describe “taking advantage of a situation by underhanded means.” Also we’ll take a look at words useful for describing statistical relationships. These are must-know phrases if you plan to do business in Japanese (and subsequently work yourself to death, lol).

Category: Upper Intermediate Lessons | 9 Comments »
Grammar: wake ni wa ikanai, ~te kara de wa osoi | Function: describing statistics, describing things | Topic: business, death, dying, jobs, karōshi, work, working, workplace in Japan | Politeness Level: casual
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