Lost Sleep Is Costing Japan’s Economy Billions
Japan loses up to $138 billion a year, study finds by Keiko Ujikane | February 15, 2017, 3:00 PM CST| From Benchmark | Bloomberg.com A man takes a nap in Tokyo. Photographer: Junji Kurokawa/AP Photo Sleep deprivation is doing more harm in Japan than just making people grumpy and unhealthy. It is also holding back the world’s third-largest economy. The problem has been getting worse in recent years. Nearly half of full-time workers say they don’t get enough sleep, citing long overtime hours as a primary reason, according to a government white paper on “karoshi”– death from overwork. That is …