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The history of Japanese psychiatry and the rights of mental patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Etsuro Totsuka
Etsuro Totsuka*
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Attorney-at-law (Japan) and Academic Visitor, Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London
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In ancient Japan, written characters and religions were largely based on Chinese cultures. The first foreign physician was invited from Korea to Japan during the Shiragi Dynasty, when an Emperor became ill at the beginning of the 5th century. Since then, Chinese medicine dominated in Japan until Western medicine was introduced in the middle of the 19th century.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , April 1990 , pp. 193 - 200
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