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Family to seek damages over suicide of Mitsubishi Electric recruit

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I wish and hope more families take on these psychopaths who use their power over young recruits for heinous and wicked purposes.

I hope the police take a more active role as well. This is death under duress.

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These people already had issues which led them to suicide. Blaming the company doesn't do anything. It's like kids and young adults these days hanging themselves because of being bullied online, these people had issues long before.

If things are so bad at a job, then quit. I have done so when I felt bullied.

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Agree with @oldman_13. No disrespect to the family of the young professional and not to generalize but many young professionals today are too soft and can't handle difficult situations. IMHO, it's not just an issue in Japan. It's the same thing in Singapore, Taiwan, and other countries I've been to/worked at. From personal experience, many of my friends and I had been thrown under the bus one too many times, we didn't exactly emerge unscathed, but we did survive.

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"We will seriously take the fact that a recruit with a promising future lost his life, and will respond to it with sincerity," it said, but it declined to reveal details of the situation surrounding his death, citing ongoing investigation.

You will forgive us if we take this statement with a BUCKET of salt...

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Victim blaming? Really? Power harassment at all levels is a real thing.

Tone-deaf statements like "one can just quit" are not much different than "there's a window..."

Eikaiwa have such problems, too. Berlitz

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We need more of these cases where the bad manager gets arrested and has to pay the price for his actions! Maybe ir it becomes a trend, they'll start to rethink their actions.

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That’s Japan Inc! Your own life is insignificant to that of the life you give for your company. I hope the family is successful in their bid to get compensation, but they will be lucky to get an adequate payout for a life and their claim is unlikely to change anything. There is an army of empty-shell graduates preparing for next March’s recruitment drive who are eager to jump into the same position.

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If things are so bad at a job, then quit

= victim blaming. Gets society nowhere.

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If things are so bad at a job, then quit.

Well, he did...

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This kind of bad action is not good for anyone, does these companies share-holders or whatever have any human beings in their private lives or these kind of people live with stones in their private lives ???.

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I would agree that workers ought to quit such ruthless companies except for the fact that most cannot afford the loss of income nor the stress of trying to find a new job with the 'blot' on thier work history resume.

Poor folks. Stronger worker trade unions would help.

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