A recent study revealed a concerning correlation between long commute times and increased rates of depression and anxiety among Japanese high school students. A Nihon University research team's ...

A Japanese research team found that an infection with a particular virus during infancy may be a trigger for depression in later life. The team from the Jikei University School of Medicine in ...

More than one in 10 Japanese in their early teens suffers depression, according to a survey conducted amid growing concerns about the recent spate of youth suicides. More than one in 10 Japanese ...

Background: Technologies to identify human emotions from their voices have been recently developed and commercialized. The present study examines whether this type of technology can be applicable to ...

To prevent the fish from feeling lonely during renovations, an aquarium in Japan placed cardboard visitors ... To test if loneliness was causing depression in the marine creature, the team stuck ...

While easy to dismiss these as merely struggling with cold weather, an expert notes that "winter depression" could ... the average Japanese diet provides sufficient amounts of these without ...