Meanwhile Japan is also the only country which has an actual word in the dictionary to describe "Death through overwork".

It's called Karoshi.

No modern society should have such a common problem that you have to invent a specific word for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoshi

The fact that Japan is abusive to its workers doesn't in any way reduce the OPs point.

Japan should - and I realize that this won't make any difference - get with the times and start treating people like they are something else than lemons that need to be squeezed. It's a cultural problem.

No reason why they both can't be fixed. At least this judge got it right.

Japan is a far cry from a role model of work environment, this is just another signal to it...

That's basically abuse.

I really hope for the Japanese people that this changes with a new generation where family is family, and business is business, and that the former is more important than the latter.