The suicide of a Towa Bank employee has been officially recognized as a work-related accident due to severe mental stress caused by overwork and intimidation, it was confirmed on Tuesday.
The 25-year-old male employee of the regional bank based in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, moved to the bank’s Kawagoe branch in Kawagoe, Saitama Prefecture, in April 2017, his fourth year at the bank, and was given the assignment to work as a manager. representative for the first time. He was found to have committed suicide on May 31 of the same year after failing to come to work.
According to the lawyer representing the relatives, the findings of the Labor Standard Inspection Office showed that the man was under extreme psychological stress due to unmanageable workload in a new field in which he had no experience and daily power intimidation by his supervisor.
