What does the Japanese word 'karoshi' translate to, which workaholics must be aware of?
Karoshi (video game) Karoshi (video game) Karoshi is a series of puzzle platformer video games created by Jesse Venbrux and developed by YoYo Games Ltd, in which the goal is to make the player character, a Japanese salaryman named "Mr. Karoshi", commit suicide. The word "karōshi" literally means "death by overwork" in Japanese. The series titles span a number of platforms. The oldest games, "Karoshi", "Karoshi 2.0", and "Karoshi Factory", were released as standalone executables for Windows. "Karoshi: Suicide Salaryman" and "Super Karoshi" run on the Adobe Flash platform, the latter of which was developed by Armor Games. The latest installment, "Mr. Karoshi",
Japanese counter word nonda" (lit. "two-long-thin-count beer drank") would only be appropriate when emphasizing the number as in responding with "[I] drank "two" bottles of beer" to "How many beers did you drink?". In Japanese, virtually all nouns must use a counter to express number. In this sense, virtually all Japanese nouns are mass nouns. This grammatical feature can result in situations where one is unable to express the number of a particular object in a syntactically correct way because one does not know, or cannot remember, the appropriate counting word. With quantities from one to ten, this problem can often be sidestepped