Depression costs Japan’s economy $32 billion

Suicides and other depression cases cost Japan’s economy about 2.7 trillion yen ($32 billion) last year, the government said Wednesday, releasing such data for the first time in a bid to raise public awareness of the nation’s long-battled social woe.

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Depression costs Japan’s economy $32 billion

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