'Work without limits': Japan's teachers battle for change

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A 2018 OECD survey found Japanese middle school teachers work 56 hours a week, versus an average 38 hours in most developed countries.

One probe by a union-affiliated think tank showed school teachers work an average 123 hours of overtime each month, pushing their weekly workload well beyond the so-called"karoshi line" of 80 hours.AFP | Richard A. Brooks

At his funeral, stunned students told his wife Sachiko that the lively physical education teacher was the"furthest imaginable person from death".But in his final weeks, he was struggling with his hours. From reams of paperwork to tasks like lunch distribution, leading daily cleaning sessions with students and monitoring children on their way to and from school, teachers in Japan"have in a way become handymen", school management consultant Masatoshi Senoo said.

"Being assigned as primary supervisor of one of these clubs usually means you have to kiss your weekends goodbye," said Takeshi Nishimoto, a high school history teacher in Osaka.He filed the suit after coming close to a nervous breakdown in 2017, when the then-rugby club supervisor worked 144 hours of overtime in a single month.

"Not everything about this job is 'black' though," she said, using a Japanese term for exploitative labour. An investigation by the Mainichi newspaper revealed that in the decade to 2016, there were 63 public school teacher deaths classified as caused by overwork.

 

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