Looking back?! A normal person would know that in advance.

I know exactly what I'd say when the boss ordered that: "That's YOUR money. You want it, you go get it. If I go in there, it's abandoned property, and it's MINE. After all, I took the RISK."

Too bad 日本人 will side with 上野景真＆the mysterious other exec that kowtowed, carrying on.

company: pulls a new employee out of the box and blows off the packing peanuts

"oh yeah, here's $1M or whatever, price of doing business."

I'm amazed that that required hindsight

OMG that is an actual quote no waaaaay

Why was the benefit of hindsight needed for that particular revelation

I assumed this was a joke. It's an actual quote in the article. Holy cow.

We just got our first charges in South Australia under our new Industrial Manslaughter laws.

Lachlan Carslake's life was apparently worth less than the cost of a $50 full face shield to Geoff and Winnie Philips.

Remember: Your employer, no matter how chummy and friendly is a piece of shit that will throw your life away for a few dollars. ALL EMPLOYERS WILL DO THIS, NO EXCEPTIONS.

Japan is still a heavily honor-based culture, yes?

So this can be the company's shameful new tagline for a while.

“We are sorry for your loss. Please accept this 20% voucher (usable on purchases above 30k yen)”

Capitalism in action. Thousands die every day for the profits of a few. This one is just more obvious than some of the rest

I am unsure why you want capitalism in this fascist nation.
This is exactly how capitalism works.

I mean to be fair it's not the company director; it's the store manager. Presumably the company's C-suite wouldn't want this to happen as it'd expose them to liability.

Edit: See below.

"Yeah looking back on it all maybe we shouldn't have murdered that worker to get a sale" is a crazy take.

Oh nooo it's Japan, murder doesn't exist there. Just look at the stats 🙄

According to the article, two people died but it's very ambiguous who the second person was.

The cause was an explosion.

Japanese work culture is brutal. I'm sure that young person considered the option of what may have looked like a small risk compared to a garunteed loss of work.

Why would I think there would be any danger after the earthquake ended unless the building was obviously damaged in some way?

Sounds like the building wasn't considered unsafe. A number of other people were also killed or injured in the explosion, so I assume people had started to be allowed back in.