Japan stadium worker's suicide was 'death by overwork' say parents

FILE PHOTO : A worker walks at a construction site of New National Stadium for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan May 26, 2017. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo

TOKYO (Reuters) - The parents of a worker on Japan's Olympic stadium who committed suicide have petitioned the government to recognise it as "death by overwork", an official said on Thursday, with media saying he worked 200 hours of overtime a month before his death.

Construction work on Tokyo's new National Stadium, the centrepiece of the 2020 Summer Olympics, began in December 2016 after a delay of nearly a year over the rejection of the original design in a cost-cutting move.