Depression was not widely recognised in Japan until the late 1990s When an advertising campaign called it a "cold of the soul" sales of anti-depressants boomed Now some have been accused of faking depression to get time off work I'm sitting on a psychiatrist's couch in southern Japan, turning the pages of a manga by the artist Torisugari. The artist himself sits beside me, talking me through it in
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