Category: Mental Health

by Michael Gillan Peckitt February 14, 2024 Number of comments0
Crime Disability Japan Mental Health

Parents arrested in Tokyo over fatal drugging of 4-yr-old daughter, use of antipsychotic drug suspected

Parents of a 4-year-old girl were arrested Wednesday for allegedly killing her with a toxic substance and antipsychotic drug at their home in Tokyo in March last year, police said.

Kenichi Hosoya, 43, and his wife, Shiho, 37, were arrested after their daughter, Yoshiki, died from poisoning on March 13, with ethylene glycol and large amounts of olanzapine, a medicine prescribed for mental disorders, detected in her body, an investigative source said.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt February 9, 2024 Number of comments0
Anime Disability Japan Mental Health

Mentally ill and disabled workers thrive in Kyoto anime studio

A business in the city’s Nakagyo Ward has created a supportive environment for people with disabilities, mental illnesses and adjustment disorders to work in the animation industry.
Although these conditions can make it difficult to succeed in traditional work environments, the Shake Hands Sanjo-Karasuma animation studio is a “type-B” workplace–designed to offer continuous employment support for people with disabilities.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt January 31, 2024 Number of comments0
Abuse Disability Japan Mental Health

After Assault on Inpatient at Tokyo Psychiatric Hospital, Director and Others to Resign

Takiyama Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Hachioji, Tokyo, where an incident of assault on an inpatient by a nurse occurred, received guidance from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government that measures to prevent recurrence were insufficient, and the hospital’s director and board members.

An improvement plan to the metropolitan government was resubmitted, a plan that includes the resignation of the head of the department.