樺沢 紫苑

Japan

Shion Kabasawa is a psychiatrist and one of Japan’s most prolific nonfiction authors, with 56 books to his name and combined sales of 2.8 million copies. Born in Sapporo in 1965, he graduated from Sapporo Medical University in 1991 and spent three years researching at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 2004. He is the founder of the Kabasawa Psychology Institute, with a stated mission of preventing mental illness and suicide through public information-sharing. His YouTube channel has 700,000+ subscribers, and his combined social media following totals 1.36 million, where he explains psychiatry, psychology, and neuroscience in clear, accessible terms.