SocietyWhen the clock strikes 5, Japan's workforce goes back to work
Reforms to improve work-life balance have left some hustling for extra cash
Tokyo workers are leaving their offices earlier than they used to in 2017, mobile tracking data show.
TAKAYUKI INOUE, RYOSUKE HANADA and ANNU NISHIOKA, Nikkei staff writers
November 22, 2019 04:23 JST
TOKYO -- The push to reduce overtime in Japan is starting to have wide-ranging effects on Japanese society, from shifting traffic patterns to boosting part-time work six months after a law was passed to improve the country's notoriously lacking work-life balance.