Source: Xinhua| 2017-10-07 12:06:54|Editor: huaxia

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TOKYO, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- Japan's largest advertising company was fined 500,000 yen (3,784 U.S. dollars) by a court on Friday for labor practice violations following the death of one of its employees from overwork.

Matsuri Takahashi, 24, jumped to her death from her company dormitory in Tokyo on Christmas Day in 2015, a case ruled by labor standards inspectors as death from overwork.

"I'm physically and mentally shattered," the woman wrote on social media weeks before her suicide. "I want to die."

According to the ruling, between October and December 2015, Dentsu Inc. made Takahashi and three other employees work between 3 hours and 30 minutes and 19 hours and 23 minutes more than the monthly overtime limit of 50 hours allowed under a labor-management agreement, the Kyodo reported.

Takahashi's death happened only months after she entered Dentsu, and has sparked national outcry over the severe working conditions many Japanese face.

Japan's Health and Labour Ministry said in its white paper on Friday that 191 cases of death from overwork were reported in the fiscal year ending in March 2017, up slightly from 189 in the previous year.

The report also showed 7.7 percent of the labour force work more than 20 hours overtime a week. Enditem