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Listen to the , hosted by Brigid Schulte and produced by David Schulman.

In Japan, workers are so used to working punishingly long hours that dying from overwork is a common phenomenon—so common, in fact, that victims’ families can and do routinely apply for worker compensation benefits. We tell the stories of Japanese workers caught up in a system of overwork, young activists trying to change that system, and a professor trying to make sense of it all. Is it an exclusively Japanese phenomenon? What can Americans learn from a culture of overwork?