At this point, it is unknown what kind of career 54-year-old Masaru Miura has, but the Japanese businessman was so disheartened or stressed with his job, he stabbed himself just to get one day off.
Masaru Miura is alleged to have stabbed himself in the hip at a subway room bathroom in Nagoya before then filing a police report saying he was stabbed from behind.
Miura told police that he was stabbed in the hip by an unknown assailant early Wednesday morning. As police questioned him however, they found inconsistencies with his story, and Miura eventually confessed to stabbing himself with a knife he found near a subway ticket station at Nagoya Municipal.
He was eventually arrested for interfering with police duties. ‘I didn’t want to go to work, so I did it. If I got hurt I thought I would not have to go to work,’ Miura said.
While stabbing one’s self isn’t a daily occurrence, overworking in Japan is definitely a prevalent issue. 2,000 people committed suicide in Japan in 2005, with work stress cited as one of the leading causes. There were talks of extending the weekends to three days after a 24-year-old woman jumped to her death after reportedly working more than 100 hours of overtime in a month.
By Chukwuemeka Chigozie
