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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.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hikikomori; isolation; japan
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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)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I’m turning Japanese, I think I’m turning Japanese I really think so...
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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.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Time to push your little birdies out of the nest, Mama birds.
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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.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
You need to instill a love of bacon and eggs in them. Then they will duly arise and have breakfast.
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posted on
07/27/2010 7:25:29 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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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')
To: TigerLikesRooster
Sounds like a lot of we hobbiests, who are retired. Yard work, the range, and back home.Life on hold?
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posted on
07/27/2010 7:26:08 AM PDT
by
Candor7
(Obama .......yes.......is fascist... ..He meets every diignostic of history.)
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.
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posted on
07/27/2010 7:26:56 AM PDT
by
brownsfan
(The average American: Uninformed, and unconcerned.)
To: sourcery
Maybe they’re afraid of Global Warming..........algoreaphobia.....
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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.............)
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.
To: brownsfan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Inside
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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.............)
To: brownsfan
After visiting Tokyo, I would chalk this up to nothing more than a fear of crowded trains.
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posted on
07/27/2010 7:31:41 AM PDT
by
toast
To: TigerLikesRooster
Oh,oh...hope they don't think a solution is to mobilize these guys for a march into Manchuria again.
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posted on
07/27/2010 7:33:58 AM PDT
by
mick
(Central Banker Capitalism is NOT Free Enterprise)
To: central_va
Is a subscription to at least one MMORPG and stacks of styrofoam carryout sushi containers in your future?
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posted on
07/27/2010 7:35:33 AM PDT
by
Psalm 144
(The bureaucrat is the natural enemy of liberty.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Take away their computers....they’ll come out.
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posted on
07/27/2010 7:39:37 AM PDT
by
ladyvet
(WOLVERINES!!!!!)
To: ladyvet
Take away their computers....theyll come out.
************
Indeed. Hmmm. Time to log, I think.
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posted on
07/27/2010 7:42:29 AM PDT
by
Psalm 144
(The bureaucrat is the natural enemy of liberty.)
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.
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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)
To: Red Badger
“algoreaphobia”
That’s a good one. I gotta remember that one.
To: ladyvet
Then who will write for DU and the Daily Kos?
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posted on
07/27/2010 7:44:21 AM PDT
by
j.argese
(Liberal thought process = oxymoron)
To: TigerLikesRooster
This is nothing new - Otaku or Otaku-zoku have been written about for years. Technology shut-ins, or ghosts.
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posted on
07/27/2010 7:44:23 AM PDT
by
sbMKE
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