Workers in Japanese Economy

[Sara Newman]

I found the lengthy Japanese work day especially perplexing given the point that Professor Tsutsui made about prominence of of stakeholder capitalism (as opposed to shareholder capitalism) in Japan. If the companies are so committed to protecting their employees, why don't they take greater efforts to ensure the meantl health and wellbeing of their workers as well as their economic status? It was interesting to hear that companies wanted to offer worker protections, ehalthcare, and schools for the children of workers, but sustainability of the workforce seems like it should be a greater priorirty for businesses. I've heard a lot abotu the high suicide rates and even work-induced deaths in Japan, so how does Japan's seemingly altruisitc buisiness model deal with this? 

Additionally, if many women became wholly economically dependent on their husbands, does this lead to high rates of domestic abuse in Japanese households? I'd imagine that without the ability to leave a marriage, women would be more likely to have to endure neagative martial conditions.