On April 1, Japan’s logistics industry faces its biggest test in decades, one with major implications for the world’s third-largest economy.
Beginning that day, strict new curbs will limit truck drivers’ annual overtime to 960 hours. The restrictions are aimed at improving notoriously gruelling conditions in an industry that routinely demands shifts of up to 15 hours, six or even seven days a week. And to make the job more appealing.
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