The number of new psychiatric drugs, and especially antidepressants on the market in Japan, is significantly less than Western countries.[1]
One of the biggest barriers to antidepressants coming to the market is that the medical insurance system in Japan is national, and the authorities are keen to contain a potentially explosive market for drugs like antidepressants that, from the Japanese perspective, could be used or abused by persons in various forms of distress.[2]
Although large epidemiological studies have not been done in Japan, it is thought that up to 6 million Japanese suffer from depression, with a lifetime prevalence of 13 to 17.3%, which is similar to that seen in Western countries.[2]
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