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Tonight NHK will air a report and commentary in English on restraints in Japan’s psychiatric hospitals. It will be part of Newsroom Tokyo, which starts at 8pm Japan time on Wednesday 17 March (today).  

“MEDICAL RESTRAINT IN JAPAN POSES PAINFUL QUESTIONS”

       Wednesday evening March 17 20:00～20:40（Japan Time）(midnight in NZ)

Then news program can also be seen on their website at any time, for 24 hours after airing, and the “Special Feature” will also be available on NHK World Japan’s site later, at the following website:

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/programs/#1002    

In other good news, Kelly’s mother appeared last week in six live on-line sessions at the World Psychiatric Association’s (WPA) first Online Congress, which is the yearly conference of the organisation, attended by psychiatrists from around the world.  There were many sessions on ethics, on human rights and on involving service users (formerly called patients) and their families in psychiatric care and in research and education.  The WPA plans to continue its Service Users and Family Carers Advisory Group indefinitely.  Hopefully the concerns of the psychiatric associations will become translated into actions of psychiatrists around the world to provide better care that respects their patients and their families.