Japan saw a record number of workers\u2019 compensation approvals for mental health disorders in fiscal 2025, according to health ministry data released Friday.<\/p>\n
The figure, published in this year\u2019s white paper on measures to prevent kar\u014dshi, or death from overwork, marked a record high for the seventh consecutive year. The report is compiled under legislation enacted in 2014 to prevent deaths, suicides and illnesses caused by excessive workloads and work-related psychological stress.<\/p>\n
A total of 4,958 workers filed compensation claims for mental disorders during fiscal 2025, up 1,178 from the previous year and more than three times the figure from a decade earlier. Of those, 1,082 cases were approved for compensation, up 26 from the previous year. Among approved cases, 76 involved suicide or attempted suicide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan saw a record number of workers\u2019 compensation approvals for mental health disorders in fiscal 2025, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[262172,102,1906,6623,147227,104933,262173,10284,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-797355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-customer-harassment","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-mhlw","tag-overwork","tag-power-harassment","tag-surveys","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}