Mrs. Takehashi
Dentsu, was slapped with a token 500,000 yen ($6,060) fine by a Tokyo court last Friday over labor violations that led to Ms Matsuri Takahashi's suicide at 24. Her widely reported case has become a rallying cry against excessive overwork, sparking a deep rethink in Japan over its labor laws. Ms. Takahashi is reported to have worked 100 hours of overtime a month for some time before her death on Christmas day 2015. According to reports, a note left behind for her mother included the line: "Why do things have to be so hard?" This is a text based animation ascribing those events.