The greatest public health issue facing the people of Japan today is not cancer. It is not vascular diseases than can cause heart attacks and strokes. It is not the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease in the ever-rising number of the elderly.
It is depression in its many forms and guises.
Depression is the big gorilla on the basketball court, the one that's stealing the ball but isn't seen because everyone is willfully looking the other way.
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