The present invention provides agents for treating or preventing diseases such as mood disorder, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's chorea, eating disorder, hypertension, gastrointestinal disease, drug addiction, epilepsy, cerebral infarction, cerebral ischemia, cerebral edema, head injury, inflammation, immune-related disease, alopecia. Specifically, the invention provides fused azole derivatives represented by general formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof that have an antagonistic action against the arginine-vasopressin 1b receptor:
