While the number of overtime hours in Japan has a strong downward trend in the private sector (−48% between 2012 and 2021, according to a study cited by Nihon Keizai Shimbun), public school teachers still suffer from inhumane working conditions. According to a survey conducted last November by the Nagoya University research team, led by specialist in the sociology of education Ryo Uchida, teachers in primary schools and colleges work an average of 100 overtime hours per month. , reported the Japanese edition of Huffington Post.
This figure is far from trivial. Not only is it well beyond the 45-hour threshold recommended by the Ministry of Culture, but it goes beyond the stage of karoshi, set at 80 hours per month, the limit beyond which the employee is exposed to increased health risks. Worse still, among the 924 teachers interviewed by the Uchida team, “
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