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“The crisis around karoshi has created a sense of urgency among companies to do something about it,” says Kobayashi.
“From a business point of view, I always knew there would be a need for this.
“Building rooms in offices to accommodate ‘kamin’ – or power napping in English – at roughly six hours after an employee has woken up helps prevent [inemuri].
More knowledge neededDespite increasing awareness, there is still a long way to go.
“The other day I visited an office block near Tokyo Station and found ‘no sleeping’ signs in toilet cubicles,” says Seiji Nishino, director of the Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology Laboratory at Stanford University.