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> And who wouldn't love to live in their "Depression"

The Japanese are committing suicide at higher rates than Americans[1], and a million of them have chosen to live as shut-ins rather than participate in society.[2] They're also not having children. Maybe that's your utopia but it sure isn't mine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori

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There's an argument that Japanese people don't accept being medicated as much as people in US/EU, which, combined with very supportive parents, means that the depressed people just stay home as shut-ins instead of trying to function on anti-depressants, as they do over here.

"The country doesn't believe in treating a debilitating disease" is not my idea of a Utopia.

>instead of trying to function on anti-depressants

Or amphetamines, which are very illegal in Japan.

But that isn't new, their rates have been high for the ~80 years your linked chart points at.

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