Editing Karoshi (section)

==Effects on society==
Suicide can be induced by overwork-related stress or when people are dismissed. The deceased person's families demand [[damages]] when such deaths occur. Life insurance companies started putting one-year exemption clauses in their contracts. They did this so that the person must wait one year to commit suicide in order for the family to receive the money.<ref name="japansubculture.com">{{cite web|last1=Adelstein|first1=Jake|title=Killing Yourself To Make A Living: In Japan Financial Incentives Reward "Suicide"|url=http://www.japansubculture.com/killing-yourself-to-make-a-living-in-japan-financial-social-incentives-keep-suicide-rates-high/|access-date=18 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119115928/http://www.japansubculture.com/killing-yourself-to-make-a-living-in-japan-financial-social-incentives-keep-suicide-rates-high/|archive-date=19 November 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

There is a new movement of Japanese workers, formed as a result of karoshi. Compared to older Japanese people who often work overtime, young Japanese people are preferring part-time work. This is a new style of career choice for the young Japanese people who want to try out different jobs in order to figure out their own potential. These individuals work for "hourly wages rather than regular salaries," and are called "[[freeter]]s." The number of freeters has increased throughout the years, from 200,000 in the 1980s to about 400,000 in 1997.<ref name="Routledge">{{cite book|last1=Dasgupta|first1=Romit|title=Salarymen doing straight: Heterosexual men and the dynamics of gender conformity|date=2005|publisher=Routledge|location=New York|pages=170}}</ref>

Freeters undergo a special kind of employment, defined by Atsuko Kanai as those who are currently employed and referred to as "part-time workers or arbeit (temporary workers), who are currently employed but wish to be employed as part time workers, or who are currently not in the labor force and neither doing housework nor attending school but wish to be employed only as part-time workers."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kanai|title=Karoshi (Work to Death) in Japan|date=2008}}</ref>