{"id":548285,"date":"2026-03-18T12:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548285\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T12:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:02:18","slug":"japans-health-ministry-to-allow-clinics-to-add-sleep-disorders-as-their-specialties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548285\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s health ministry to allow clinics to add sleep disorders as their specialties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitals and clinics offering sleep disorder treatments in Japan will soon be able to advertise this area of expertise, with a recent decision by a health ministry panel to allow doctors to add care for such disorders to their existing specialties.<\/p>\n<p>The move, approved by the panel earlier this month, aims to make it easier for people to find suitable doctors who can treat insomnia and other sleep-related health issues.<\/p>\n<p>People in Japan get among the fewest hours of sleep in the world, with the OECD data showing that the average amount is 7 hours and 22 minutes \u2014 far shorter than the global average of 8 hours and 28 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hospitals and clinics offering sleep disorder treatments in Japan will soon be able to advertise this area of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[16555,64,63,137,500,1679,196176,62062,4334,4016],"class_list":["post-548285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-apps","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-medicine","tag-mhlw","tag-national-health-care","tag-pharmaceuticals","tag-sleep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}