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Japan, Inc., Dec, 2002

The Japan Productivity Center for Socioeconomic Development surveyed 2,669 publicly listed companies (only 282 responded) regarding outlays for employee mental health. Of these, the largest response--4.8 percent--was less than [yen] 1,000 per employee per year. Another 29.1 percent replied that they spent between [yen] 1,000 to [yen] 3,000.

Expenditures of more than [yen] 10,000 were cited by only 1.1 percent of the respondents. However, future outlays appear more likely to go up than down, as 32.3 percent of the companies said they expected to pay more while only 1.4 percent planned to cut the figures.