Tokyo (by Clive France)

”Thirty thousand people commit suicide in Japan every year, but if we could diagnose them and treat them in time, that number would go down dramatically,” said Tadashi Onda, a Tokyo psychiatrist, almost half of whose practice consists of depressed patients. ”I’ve never even heard of anyone specializing in depression, though. The bigger problem in Japan is that a stigma attaches to anyone seen as treating crazy people, and the status of psychiatrists remains very low.” NYT