Abstract
odernisation of Japan began in the Meiji era (1868-1912 ) after learning from Western countries about various institutions, industries, technology, arts, educational systems and medicine. The influence of western medicine, including psychiatry, on Japanese medicine has mainly come from Germany, but also partially from England and France, and following World War I1 also from the United States of America. Modernisation of Japan further enabled its internationalisation. Today Japan has strong ties with many countries, both western and non-western, and plays complementary and supplementary roles with fellow nations. As a result, Australia and Japan are now good partners in trading and financial issues, but both countries’ cultures and social institutions including Dsvchiatric -1 i services have not been sufficiently exposed to each other. In this article I will give an outline for Australian readers of the history and current trend of psychiatry and psychiatric services in Japan. History In the Ancient and the Middle ages of Japan, as in other
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