Some 910,000 new hires attended welcome ceremonies at companies large and small across Japan on April 1. Greeted with speeches from presidents and CEOs and urged to do their best for an organization that the new arrivals are encouraged to consider their new family, few are likely to have pondered the possible negative impact of their entry into the Japanese workforce.
Even fewer will have remembered the case of Mina Mori, who was 26 years old when she killed herself in June 2008, just …
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