Mental Health & Wellbeing in Japan

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More resources and background reading coming soon!

A) General overview of the situation

1) Stigma:

https://borgenproject.org/mental-health-in-japan/

2) The last couple of sections on education and digital innovations are particularly interesting:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/10/japans-challenges-in-making-mental-health-more-accessible/

3) More on education:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/eip.12959?af=R

4) A specific approach:

https://aeon.co/essays/japans-radical-alternative-to-psychiatric-diagnosis

B) Creative Solutions:

5) Something cultural:

https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/city-project/tokyo-creative-well-being-project/

6) Dancing for Parkinsons:

https://icomjapan.org/en/updates/2023/08/28/p-3381/

7) Traditional dance:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0531513105017383

8) Hip-hop dancing for the elderly:

https://news.cgtn.com/news/3067444d33494464776c6d636a4e6e62684a4856/index.html

9) There is something about caligraphy towards the bottom:

https://www.mogamiwellness.com/resources

10) Breathing:

https://www.japanhouselondon.uk/whats-on/zen-kokyu-method-breathing-workshops/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1475930/
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/japanese-specialist-ikuo-homma-develops-new-respiratory-exercise-that-gives-mind-a-breather-1848087

11)  Using music in hospitals:

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-trends/Patients-heal-to-the-sound-of-music-in-Japan#:~:text=Music%20therapy%20is%20increasing%20all,improving%20immunity%20to%20slowing%20dementia.

12) Music Therapy:

https://www.okuko-musictherapy.com/
https://yumikomusic.wordpress.com/about/

13) Sony looking after music artists mental health in Japan:

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/01/13/music/sony-music-mental-health/
https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/blog/2023/10/10/