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Working Too Much in Japan?

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State employees in Hawai‘i get more than four weeks of vacation each year, along with 13 paid holidays—14 during an election year. And while taking time off doesn’t seem to be an issue here in the islands for state workers or in the private sector, apparently it is in Japan. HPR’s Bill Dorman explains in today’s Asia Minute.

Bill Dorman has been the news director at Hawaiʻi Public Radio since 2011.
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