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  1. Sep 9, 2015 · Japan's prototype of depression was traditionally a melancholic depression based on the premorbid personality known as shūchaku-kishitsu proposed by Mitsuzo Shimoda in the 1930s. However, since around 2000, a novel form of depression has emerged among Japanese youth.

    • Takahiro A. Kato, Ryota Hashimoto, Kohei Hayakawa, Hiroaki Kubo, Motoki Watabe, Alan R. Teo, Shigeno...
    • 2016
  2. Jul 19, 2016 · Up until the late 1990s in Japan, "depression" was a word rarely heard outside psychiatric circles. Some claimed this was because people in Japan simply did not suffer depression.

  3. Dec 1, 2011 · Japanese psychiatrists have increasingly reported patients with depression that does not seem to fit the criteria of the ICD-10 and the DSM-IV, and which has recently been called modern type depression (MTD).

    • Takahiro A. Kato, Naotaka Shinfuku, Daisuke Fujisawa, Masaru Tateno, Tetsuya Ishida, Tsuyoshi Akiyam...
    • Not hard worker to begin with
    • 2011
    • Feel distressed against rules/order
  4. Oct 16, 2019 · The term first gained prominence in the 1990s, when Japanese media seized on it to portray young workers who took time off from work for mental-health reasons as immature and lazy. While the term...

  5. Jan 9, 2012 · The book examines the psychiatric discourse on depression and suicide in Japan from different angles: historical, clinical and socio-legal. Historically, the concept of “depression” has gone through many shifts in Japan over centuries and demonstrates how it has come to be transformed from a “rarity” to a “national disease.”

  6. It has been reported that high socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with lower prevalence of depression across countries. 3 This was true in Japan when we used a symptom measure of depression. 4 The association between SES and prevalence of CMD based on clinical diagnostic criteria (DSM-IV) was not clear. 1, 2, 5

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  8. Sep 26, 2011 · Investigating these profound changes from historical, clinical, and sociolegal perspectives, Depression in Japan explores how depression has become a national disease and entered the Japanese lexicon, how psychiatry has responded to the nation's ailing social order, and how, in a remarkable transformation, psychiatry has overcome the ...

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