The Discrimination Against People with Schizoprenia in Japan

This will lay the foundation for case studies of the differences in clinical and socio-cultural life between the biomedical psychiatric diagnosis term "schizophrenia" and the terms of India and Japan. The second-to-last section will focus on localization of comparative psychotherapy and current efforts in India and Japan. Let's understand the differences between the two countries through historical, social and cultural factors.

In the beginning of Japan there was serious discrimination between sexes. They say that "men are gluttonous, women are housewives." Even after Japan enacted the Employment Opportunity Equal Law in 1985, the law prohibited discrimination against women under employment and urged employers to treat women equally in terms of employment, employment, distribution and promotion. But it is still the last person to be employed at full time job. Japanese women are also expected to resign if children have children. Even if the company is facing a shortage of workers, they are not planning to hire more women. Due to prejudice of Japanese companies, women need to make twice efforts to improve their careers. Their university education is almost the same as those without high school education. According to statistics in 1997, Japanese women account for only 3% of occupational positions, only 44.3% of the US.

As Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, doubts came between Japanese and American residents, and the history of discrimination against Japanese immigrants worsened. By the beginning of 1942, the US government was forced to stop the rights of Japanese Americans and move them to concentration camps, feared that Japan and the United States would collide with the Japanese war. The decision made by President Franklin Roosevelt in presidential order 9066 was designed to remove Japanese Americans from the West Coast "rejected areas" where they can establish a channel of communication with Japan.

On December 7, 1941, Japan snatched the US naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. President Franklin Roosevelt called this a "life of notorious day". America declared war on the second day. 74 days after the Pearl Harbor incident, President Roosevelt issued Presidential Decree No. 9066. With this order, more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were obliged to leave their homes to California, Washington, Oregon. They were sent to one of the ten camps in the desolate area of ​​the United States.