Japan wakes up to the market for a proper sleep

Oct. 12, 2024 - The Japan Times

A famous proverb says time is money. So too is sleep, it seems.

A study published in Rand Health Quarterly in 2017 examined the economic burden of insufficient sleep across five OECD countries: Canada, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. It’s no secret that Japan has a sleep problem.

People here get an average of seven hours and 22 minutes of shut-eye per night, the shortest among 33 countries surveyed by the OECD in 2021...