The Japanese beef bowl chain Sukiya Co. is vowing to improve working conditions after it revealed that an employee who collapsed while working alone on an early January morning had died from a heart attack.
A female worker of Japan's leading fast-food chain Sukiya Co collapsed earlier this year while working alone at one of its outlets and she was confirmed dead later after suffering a heart attack, a company official said Thursday. The woman in her 50s was working an early morning shift in…
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The operator of a restaurant in Shibuya s Nonbei Yokocho (Drinkers’ alley) area closes her business at 8 p.m. on Jan. 8. (Nobuo Fujiwara)
Across the greater Tokyo metropolitan area, bars and restaurants took decidedly different approaches to closing early to comply with the government s latest state of emergency to fight the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Friday night, traditionally a time for Tokyoites to let their hair down at the end of a busy work week, was the epitome of quiet in the capital s bustling Shibuya district, which normally comes alive from 8 p.m. or so.
On Jan. 8, most bars and restaurants were shutting up by 8 p.m. to ensure compliance, triggering a mass exodus from Shibuya Station as people headed home early instead of the traditional mad crush around midnight for last trains.