Physical Restraint and Solidically Contained People in Japan

For a severely disabled person, a psychiatric hospital is not a place to be. Professor Toshio Hasigawa says the long-term impact on the mental health of patients by over-restraint and confinement cannot be underestimated. A voluntary visit to hospital in 2016 proved to be a 40-year-old cancer or heart attack last. An angry teacher from New Zealand suffering from Bible- been tied to a bed in a psychiatric ward in Tokyo for 10 days. There was a story of incarceration in these institutions which has shocked people across Japan. The ministry changed the way they countered recently, but the latest figures are 12,600 ordered to solitary confinement and 11,000 physically restrained as of last June