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Japan:'Hikikomori' bedroom hermits should be regarded as national crisis
Mainichi Daily News ^ | 07/27/10

Posted on 07/27/2010 7:21:03 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

'Hikikomori' bedroom hermits should be regarded as national crisis

There are approximately 230,000 people who almost constantly shut themselves in their rooms except to go to nearby convenience stores, according to a survey conducted by the Cabinet Office. The number increases to about 700,000 if those who only go out to do something hobby-related are included.

Moreover, there are an estimated 1.55 million potential so-called 'hikikomori' who have felt like shutting themselves in their own rooms. Most of them are young people.

As the population of young people declines due to falling birthrates, the statistics have raised questions about the future of Japan.

Hikikomori are defined as those who shut themselves in their homes for at least six months but are not involved in child care or housework even though they are not sick.

Problems involving shut-ins have been pointed out over the past 15 years, but only experts and nonprofit organizations have worked on the issue, with little public support. The government has been late in responding to the situation and taken only stopgap measures. Numerous cases have ended in tragic incidents, and the situation was worsened as a result of treatment and education that lacked solid scientific foundations.

(Excerpt) Read more at mdn.mainichi.jp ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hikikomori; isolation; japan
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1 posted on 07/27/2010 7:21:05 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; sushiman; Ronin; AmericanInTokyo; gaijin; struggle; DTogo; GATOR NAVY; Iris7; ...

P!


2 posted on 07/27/2010 7:21:27 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I’m turning Japanese, I think I’m turning Japanese I really think so...


3 posted on 07/27/2010 7:23:43 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Time to push your little birdies out of the nest, Mama birds.


4 posted on 07/27/2010 7:24:54 AM PDT by BenLurkin (Will must be the harder, courage the bolder, spirit must be the more, as our might lessens.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

You need to instill a love of bacon and eggs in them. Then they will duly arise and have breakfast.


5 posted on 07/27/2010 7:25:29 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Agoraphobia


6 posted on 07/27/2010 7:25:33 AM PDT by sourcery (Let's not use the word 'terrorist.' Instead, let's use 'Islamic Supremacist')
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Sounds like a lot of we hobbiests, who are retired. Yard work, the range, and back home.Life on hold?


7 posted on 07/27/2010 7:26:08 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama .......yes.......is fascist... ..He meets every diignostic of history.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Population density is a serious issue. I seem to recall studies conducted on animals, and when the population density got to a critical level, all manner of odd and destructive behavior emerged.


8 posted on 07/27/2010 7:26:56 AM PDT by brownsfan (The average American: Uninformed, and unconcerned.)
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To: sourcery

Maybe they’re afraid of Global Warming..........algoreaphobia.....


9 posted on 07/27/2010 7:29:42 AM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. But he does have him in his MY FAVES.............)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
As the population of young people declines due to falling birthrates, the statistics have raised questions about the future of Japan.

LOL. It's pretty hard to procreate if you spend all your time alone in your room.

10 posted on 07/27/2010 7:29:51 AM PDT by drangundsturm
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To: brownsfan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Inside

11 posted on 07/27/2010 7:31:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. But he does have him in his MY FAVES.............)
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To: brownsfan

After visiting Tokyo, I would chalk this up to nothing more than a fear of crowded trains.


12 posted on 07/27/2010 7:31:41 AM PDT by toast
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Oh,oh...hope they don't think a solution is to mobilize these guys for a march into Manchuria again.
13 posted on 07/27/2010 7:33:58 AM PDT by mick (Central Banker Capitalism is NOT Free Enterprise)
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To: central_va

Is a subscription to at least one MMORPG and stacks of styrofoam carryout sushi containers in your future?


14 posted on 07/27/2010 7:35:33 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (The bureaucrat is the natural enemy of liberty.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Take away their computers....they’ll come out.


15 posted on 07/27/2010 7:39:37 AM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: ladyvet

Take away their computers....they’ll come out.

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Indeed. Hmmm. Time to log, I think.


16 posted on 07/27/2010 7:42:29 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (The bureaucrat is the natural enemy of liberty.)
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To: brownsfan
I seem to recall studies conducted on animals, and when the population density got to a critical level, all manner of odd and destructive behavior emerged.

Homosexuality being one of them.

17 posted on 07/27/2010 7:42:47 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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To: Red Badger

“algoreaphobia”

That’s a good one. I gotta remember that one.


18 posted on 07/27/2010 7:42:58 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: ladyvet

Then who will write for DU and the Daily Kos?


19 posted on 07/27/2010 7:44:21 AM PDT by j.argese (Liberal thought process = oxymoron)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

This is nothing new - Otaku or Otaku-zoku have been written about for years. Technology shut-ins, or ghosts.


20 posted on 07/27/2010 7:44:23 AM PDT by sbMKE
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