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Saku City Employee's Death Due to Overwork Recognized: 120 Hours of Overtime for Two Consecutive Months (Kyodo News)

It was revealed on the 6th that the Nagano Prefecture branch review board of the Local Government Employees' Accident Compensation Fund had recognized that the suicide of Noboru Koganezawa, a 51-year-old employee of Saku City, Nagano Prefecture, in May 2022, was a work-related accident resulting from working more than 120 hours of overtime per month for two months.
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It was revealed on the 6th that the Nagano Prefecture branch review board of the Local Government Employees' Accident Compensation Fund had recognized that the suicide of Noboru Koganezawa, a 51-year-old employee of Saku City, Nagano Prefecture, in May 2022, was a work-related accident resulting from working more than 120 hours of overtime per month for two months.

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熊本日日新聞社 broke the news on Monday, April 6, 2026.
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