I figured they must know what they’re doing.
It might be a bit tough for him to be there for a little while
but it’s not going to kill him or anything - that’s what I thought.
Obviously I was wrong.
I have a lot of good connections with Japan
but it just seems like particularly the healthcare system
and the mental healthcare system is just really rotten.
His dream was to go work for the JET programme
and teach English in Japan.
That was his dream throughout university.
He always really loved to do whatever his brother did.
He worshipped his older brother.
And his brother got into Japan, so Kelly got into Japan…
He was a great little brother.
We fought a little bit when we were younger
but we were close.
We really liked playing sports together.
Cricket in the backyard, basketball.
I remember the doctor calling us in
Kelly had just told him how depressed he was and
that we needed to know about it
and that was the first we really realised.
The reason he finished university
was because he knew he had to finish
to go to this JET programme, which was his big goal.
So we were really proud he made it through university.
It was a real struggle for him.
We thought he was getting better.
He was better.
Kelly was just the sweetest guy.
Always open, would share anything and everything.
We went down and visited Kelly
at the place where he was teaching
and we had a class…
The kids were really cute and they really seemed to love Kelly.
It was clear - children can’t lie.
[singing] Head, shoulders, knees and toes.
Kelly sensei was my teacher.
Kelly sensei was our teacher.
When he left, he didn’t drive his car, he took a bus.
So every morning when I’d get up and go to work,
I’d see his car out there.
In my heart I knew he’d come back,
things would go back to normal,
but in my mind I knew that he was not coming back.
This is Yamato Hospital where my brother Kelly was
when his heart stopped.
They wouldn't let me in to see him most of the time.
It was a locked room inside of a locked ward
and they still thought he needed to be
tied to the bed.
They told me I had to sign these forms
to say that I’d pay for diapers
because he'll be tied to the bed for quite a while.
Every day we went out to visit him
and see if he would respond.
He never did.
At one point the doctor told me for the first time that
he thought maybe the reason Kelly had the cardiac arrest
was from a pulmonary embolism from the restraints.
That had never been mentioned before,
that it could have caused his death.
It was just so horrifying.
You can sit for three hours on an aeroplane and get DVT
because you haven’t done your exercises.
Well, what if you’re there for 10 days with your feet not moving.
I was there and saw that he didn't need the restraints.
But you don't have to take my word for it,
it says in the records that we finally got them to give us.
It has the same statement copy and pasted, saying...
...he's in a highly agitated state and needs to remain restrained
because he would otherwise be a danger to his own life.
I thought this must have been a shocking, isolated incident
but actually this is happening throughout Japan.
To keep letting them put in two-thirds as much staff
as you have in other [general] hospitals
and use restraints instead of hiring nurses.
The hospitals in general, in particular the psychiatric hospitals in Japan have a lot of power.
They heavily lobby the government.
They donate a lot of money
to the liberal democratic party that’s in power.
They’re very unregulated.
They trust that the psychiatric doctors
making the decisions know what’s best
and they're probably doing the right thing.
They're kind of allowed to regulate themselves.
The head of the Japanese Psychiatric Hospitals’ Association,
on his Facebook page he’s got
a picture of him with Abe, the Prime Minister…
I can’t remember if they have their arms around each other
or if they’re just drinking together,
but they look like they’re mates.
There’s not good vibes there for us.
I think the way change will come in Japan
is from external pressure.
There’s this word 'gaiatsu' - external pressure.
Japan doesn’t change by itself,
it changes by pressure from the outside.
So the fact that Kelly was a foreigner
made it a lot more likely
that things would change.
And the fact that that was getting on
the front page of the New Zealand newspapers and
was being talked about in the Guardian
and stuff like that
If Japan feels like this is
an embarrassment internationally,
which it is, and should be,
that's the only way I think they'll change
Instead of crying I ... fight.
I think of the lion cub
and the mother is gonna go after anybody
who goes after her cub.
I'm not going to stop until I can get
some kind of solution to this problem.