psychiatric inpatient care in japan is provided principally by private notforprofit hospitals which account for of all inpatient beds but also by public hospitals psychiatric inpatient bed numbers and average length of stay alos have been falling steadily although taken as reported alos and numbers of psychiatric patients are still high relative to the oecd average when considering the typically reported alos days compared to an oecd average of days and psychiatric bed numbers beds per population compared to the oecd average of it is important to note that in japan a high number of psychiatric care beds are utilised by long stay chronic patients which might not be reported under the psychiatric bed category by other oecd countries