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":876731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[368820,97,259,260,203950,148225,368821,64285],"class_list":["post-876730","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}