@article{ref1,
title="New occupational threats to Japanese physicians: karoshi (death due to overwork) and karojisatsu (suicide due to overwork)",
journal="Occupational and environmental medicine",
year="2008",
author="Hiyama, T. and Yoshihara, M.",
volume="65",
number="6",
pages="428-429",
abstract="It has been said that the Japanese have a &quot;worker bee&quot; attitude toward matters of employment. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO) report (2004), 28.1% of Japanese employees worked 50 hours or more per week in 2001. This percentage is much higher than in European countries such as the Netherlands (1.4%), Sweden (1.9%), Finland (4.5%) and Germany (5.3%). Physicians are no exception; in fact, they may work more than other types of workers. Japanese physicians worked 66.4 hours per week on average in 2005, according to a report by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) of Japan.  <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1351-0711",
doi="10.1136/oem.2007.037473",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oem.2007.037473"
}