“No More Karoshi! Ryu Foundation” award ceremony – With 130 people

The “No More Karoshi! Ryu Foundation” held the 4th Ceremony of the Nakajima Tomio Award in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo on August 1, 2010. The foundation gave the Nakajima Award of this year to Teranishi Emiko, who filed suit against the Japanese government for the disclosure of names of companies whose employees have died from overwork (President of the National Association for Bereaved Families of Karoshi Victims, center in the photo. Karoshi: Death from overwork). The venue was filled with 130 people partly thanks to a commemorative speech by Utsunomiya Kenji, the president of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations and the Anti-Poverty Campaign. Before the start of the award ceremony, all the participants offered a silent prayer to the photos of Nakajima Tomio, who was husband of Nakajima Haruka (right in the photo of this report), the president of the Ryu Foundation, and died from karoshi in 2004 when he was a store manager of Skylark, a family restaurant chain, and of Maesawa Takayuki, who was a son of Maesawa Emiko (left), the vice president of the foundation, and also died from karoshi in 2007 when he was a contract store manager of the same restaurant chain. (Suda Mitsuteru)
「過労死をなくそう！龍基金」授賞式を開催～130人が集う
「過労死をなくそう！龍基金」は8月1日、第4回中島富雄賞授賞式を東京・葛飾で開催し、過労死を出した企業名の公表を求めて国を提訴した原告の寺西笑子さん（全国過労死を考える家族の会代表・写真中央）を今年の中島賞の受賞者として表彰しました。日本弁護士連合会の会長で反貧困ネットワーク代表である宇都宮健児弁護士の記念講演もあり、会場には満員の130人が集まりました。授賞式の冒頭、龍基金の代表である中島晴香さん（右）の夫で、すかいらーくの店長として2004年に過労死で亡くなった中島富雄さんと、副代表の前澤笑美子さん（左）の長男で、すかいらーくの契約店長として2007年に過労死で亡くなった前澤隆之さんの遺影に向かって参加者全員で黙とうをささげました。（須田光照）