Mar 16, 2015
Japan’s Jobs Crisis
In Tokyo, a Japanese man waits for a train under LED lights, which are designed to calm people and prevent them from jumping onto the tracks. Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, and ten thousand suicides since 1997 are said to be related to overwork, according to a government survey.
View the slideshow by the photographer Shiho Fukada who has been looking at the symbiotic relationship between Japan’s current political turmoil and its unemployment crisis for The New Yorker.
Image by Shiho Fukada. Japan, 2012.
