Abstract
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.
Highlights
For nearly a thousand years, the Japanese have read the story of Genji-Monogatari written by Shikibu Murasaki in Japanese characters
Another important piece of literature that illustrates the Japanese attitude is a contemporary novel Narayamabushi-ko written by Shichiro Fukazawa (1964), which is based on an ancient legend
The Shogunate was worried that Christianity and Western military power would undermine the newly set up Tokugawa Regime and cut off Japan from the outside world for more than 200 years
Summary
In ancient Japan, written characters and religions were largely based on Chinese cultures. During the Tokugawa era, Japanese families were allowed to confine their own mentally ill relatives in private cells at home. The detention in mental hospitals of mental patients who were regarded as dangerous or difficult to treat, under the order ofthe authorities, and the confinement in home cells of non-dangerous mental patients, under the request of families, were encouraged Despite this new law, public mental hospitals did not develop quickly and domestic confinement was still allowed. Public mental hospitals did not develop quickly and domestic confinement was still allowed During these years, the Japanese attitude towards the mentally ill was as follows. Totsuka public safety took precedence over patients' rights
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