"There is still some stigma against hikikomori, but if we want to help these people we need to evaluate the different reasons why people become hikikomori and the different types of hikikomori," said Kato.
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"With a strong Japanese value of having to take full responsibility for your actions, family issues must be solved within a family," said Natsue Onda, a co-director of Hikikomori UX Kaigi, a group of former and current hikikomori.
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According to the Japanese government, around half a million Japanese people are hikikomori.
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In Japan the government has surveyed hikikomori, or "people who shut themselves in their homes".
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Many prefectural governments operate support centers for families of hikikomori, but they are staffed by nonspecialists.
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Hikikomori may be affected by schizophrenia, depression or anxiety, or they may be on the autism spectrum.
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"In the past 803 years, the number of hikikomori who have committed a violent crime is only a few — no more than 10 cases, for sure," said Tamaki Saito, a psychiatrist at the University of Tsukuba, about an hour northeast of Tokyo, who is a leading expert on hikikomori.
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"The problem is not in the act of seclusion," support group Kazoku Hikikomori Japan said in a statement.
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Sometimes family members of hikikomori contact Client Partners, hoping they manage to pull them out of their isolation.
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The majority of hikikomori in Japan—men who have decided to check out of society—have diagnosable mental disorders.
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The country has an alarmingly high suicide rate, a rapidly aging population, and an increasing number of recluses, or hikikomori.
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One such service is ReSTART, a company in Tokyo that moves hikikomori out of their parents' homes and into dormitories.
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But psychiatrists and advocates worry that two recent outbreaks of violence connected to hikikomori may leave them even more vilified.
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The 2016 cabinet survey, said Kato, was flawed as it failed to mention how many adults over 39 were also hikikomori.
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They look like Kraftwerk and the Blue Man Group had a love child that grew up into a basement dwelling hikikomori.
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Keeping everything hidden within the home can create a vicious cycle in which both hikikomori and their family members feel trapped.
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Her more serious cases involve hikikomori, people who haven't left their room for extended periods of time, and live isolated lives.
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Here's the solution to Internet agoraphobia, and hikikomori culture, that uses the same characters that enabled the addiction to begin with.
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In Japan, 1.2 million people identify as "hikikomori" — extreme recluses who rarely engage with the outside world for months at a time.
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Social isolation has certainly increased in Japan, where half a million young people live as "hikikomori" — recluses who don't leave their homes.
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He noted, however, that for hikikomori to reintegrate fully back into society they needed to start having face-to-face interactions with others.
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Now that we have terms like social anxiety disorder and agoraphobia and drugs like Paxil, retiring to one's bedchamber feels less Emily Dickinson, more hikikomori.
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Now, psychiatrists and advocates worry that a new wave of fearmongering will leave hikikomori even more vilified and painted falsely as prone to heinous crimes.
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According to the government survey, an estimated 613,000 people between age 40 and 64 identify as hikikomori, outnumbering the 540,000 between age 15 and 39.
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The priority is to help prise hikikomori out of their rooms and get them back to work, a solution that may leave psychological issues unaddressed.
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Hikikomori are generally defined as adults who hole up in their parents' or other relatives' homes for six months or more, often confined to a single room.
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He is currently working with a hikikomori support center in Fukuoka that provides therapy to people of all ages with this condition, helping them reintegrate back into society.
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According to a government survey released in March, there are nearly 1.2 million people who identify as hikikomori — about one in every 60 Japanese age 15 to 64.
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Advocates have coined the term "8050" to refer to the demographic problem of an increasing number of hikikomori entering their 50s while their parents are entering their 80s.
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Directed by filmmaker Oscar Hudson and featuring vocals by Nick Murphy, the video opens on a hikikomori, a Japanese person who has completely withdrawn from life into their home.
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Even before these spasms of violence, Japan's hundreds of thousands of hikikomori faced a stigma in a country that has retained a strong taboo against even acknowledging mental illness.
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But the more hikikomori are demonized, or at least categorized as damaged or strange, the harder it is for them to be accepted in society or offered a job.
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That is good news for a country where the word "youth" tends, with good reason, to conjure up images of gloomy misfits: hikikomori—people who shun society—and otaku—nerds.
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In Japan, 25 million people identify as hikikomori — extreme recluses who hole up in their parents' or relatives' homes, rarely engaging with the outside world for months at a time.
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Such schools, along with support centers like the one Kato works at, have gone some way to help hikikomori, with numbers down by 151,000 since 2010, according to the cabinet survey.
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Not many singletons have boyfriends or girlfriends, even if they are neither otaku (men who are obsessed with anime or computer games) nor hikikomori (those who lock themselves away in their rooms).
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These people are known as hikikomori -- a term the Japanese Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry uses to define those who haven't left their homes or interacted with others for at least six months.
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The incidents spotlight Japan's growing legion of adult hikikomori, as they are known, people who live at home with their parents and seldom, if ever, venture out, spending their days in hermit-like seclusion.
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While researching these themes, Hudson learned about the Japanese phenomenon of hikikomori—young Japanese people so overwhelmed by life's pressures that they retreat to their bedrooms and don't leave for years at a time.
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Takahiro A. Kato, a psychiatrist at Kyushu University who researches hikikomori and consults with families, said he was often approached by aging parents — mostly mothers — who asked how they could continue providing for their grown children.
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"Parents don't disclose the state of their children to outside society," said Tomiko Kushihashi, who runs a local chapter in Hyogo Prefecture, west of Kyoto, of Kazoku Hikikomori Japan, a support group for families of shut-ins.
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Investigators and the news media have zeroed in on the fact that the attacker, who killed himself after the assault, which left two dead, lived as an extreme recluse — or "hikikomori," as the condition is known in Japan.
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"These people have lower levels of resilience and can often start feeling very pressurized," said Kato, who noted that the numbers of male hikikomori were higher than women owing to the higher expectations that Japanese society placed on men.
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Bullying remains pervasive in Japanese schools, as a group of young people described to Francis on Monday, and there is a growing number of people known as "hikikomori," who refuse to leave the safety of their houses, sometimes for years.
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"The scope of the problem is not things like a stabbing by a person who happens to be hikikomori," said Alan Teo, an associate professor of psychiatry at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland who has researched social withdrawal in Japan.
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Mr. Iwai was a "hikikomori" — the term for reclusive individuals who refuse to leave their home or bedroom — from age 16 to 20, and as he tells it in the playbill, he initially hoped to encounter a French equivalent to this Japanese phenomenon.
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The low-key tone of Murakami's narrators, which in earlier books like "Norwegian Wood" scanned as hipster cool, has in recent years come to feel more like depersonalization and isolation, a malaise not unlike that associated with hikikomori, the young shut-ins who have become a symbol of contemporary spiritual crisis.
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If you're rich, like Oscar Isaac's character in Ex Machina, and your plan is to build a futuristic solar-powered home in the wilderness and filter your own pee for drinking water, then your situation is a lot like the hikikomori guys from number 1, and I wish you good luck holding onto your mental health.
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Kudō, Sadatsugu. October 2001. Hey Hikikomori! It's Time, Let's Go Out.
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Retrieved on 13 October 2008. Saitō is notable for his study of hikikomori, a term he coined; he is internationally recognized as Japan's leading hikikomori expert."Japan: The Missing Million" (20 October 2002). Retrieved on 13 October 2008.
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Hikikomori is similar to the social withdrawal exhibited by some people with autism spectrum disorders, a group of disorders that include Asperger syndrome, PDD-NOS and "classic" autism. This has led some psychiatrists to suggest that hikikomori may be affected by autism spectrum disorders and other disorders that affect social integration, but that their disorders are altered from their typical Western presentation because of Japanese sociocultural pressures. Suwa & Hara (2007) discovered that 5 of 27 cases of hikikomori had a high-functioning pervasive developmental disorder (HPDD), and 12 more had other disorders or mental diseases (6 cases of personality disorders, 3 cases of obsessive- compulsive disorder, 2 cases of depression, 1 case of slight mental retardation); 10 out of 27 had primary hikikomori. The researchers used a vignette to illustrate the difference between primary hikikomori (without any obvious mental disorder) and hikikomori with HPDD or other disorder.
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Additionally, the government estimates that 1.55 million people are on the verge of becoming hikikomori. Tamaki Saitō, who first coined the phrase, originally estimated that there may be over one million hikikomori in Japan, although this was not based on national survey data. Nonetheless, considering that hikikomori adolescents are hidden away and their parents are often reluctant to talk about the problem, it is extremely difficult to gauge the number accurately.
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A young Japanese man living as a hikikomori in 2004 In Japan, are reclusive adolescents or adults who withdraw from society and seek extreme degrees of isolation and confinement. Hikikomori refers to both the phenomenon in general and the recluses themselves. Hikikomori have been described as loners or "modern-day hermits". Estimates suggest that half a million Japanese youths have become social recluses, as well as more than half a million middle-aged individuals.
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The psychiatrist Alan Teo first characterized hikikomori in Japan as modern-day hermits, while the literary and communication scholar Flavio Rizzo similarly described hikikomori as "post-modern hermits" whose solitude stems from ancestral desires for withdrawal. While the degree of the phenomenon varies on an individual basis, in the most extreme cases, some people remain in isolation for years or even decades. Often hikikomori start out as school refusers, or in Japanese (an older term is ).
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Loner (; aka Orphaned or Hikikomori) is a 2008 South Korean film. The debut feature by director Park Jae-sik, Loner is a horror film about hikikomori, the phenomenon of reclusive individuals who have chosen to withdraw from social life.Kim Do-hyung. "The Horror Crouching Behind a Lonely Girl".
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According to Japanese government figures released in 2010, there are 700,000 individuals living as hikikomori within Japan, with an average age of 31. Still, the numbers vary widely among experts. These include the hikikomori who are now in their 40s and have spent 20 years in isolation. This group is generally referred to as the "first-generation hikikomori.” There is concern about their reintegration into society in what is known as "the 2030 Problem,” when they are in their 60s and their parents begin to die.
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Some organizations such as the non-profit Japanese organization NPO lila have been trying to combat the financial burden the hikikomori phenomenon has had on Japan's economy. The Japanese CD and DVD producer Avex Group produces DVD videos of live-action women staring into a camera to help hikikomori learn to cope with eye contact and long spans of human interaction. The goal is to help hikikomori reintegrate into society by personal choice, thereby realizing an economic contribution and reducing the financial burden on parents.
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While it mainly deals with the phenomenon of hikikomori, the plot also explores many other Japanese subcultures—for example otaku, lolicon, and Internet suicide pacts.
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While many people feel the pressures of the outside world, hikikomori react by complete social withdrawal. In some more extreme cases, they isolate themselves in their bedrooms for months or years at a time. They usually have few or no friends. In interviews with current or recovering hikikomori, media reports and documentaries have captured the strong levels of psychological distress and angst felt by these individuals.
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Historically, Confucian teachings de- emphasizing the individual and favouring a conformist stance to ensure social harmony in a rigidly hierarchized society have shaped much of East Asia, possibly explaining the emergence of the hikikomori phenomenon in other East Asian countries. In general, the prevalence of hikikomori tendencies in Japan may be encouraged and facilitated by three primary factors: #Middle class affluence in a post-industrial society such as Japan allows parents to support and feed an adult child in the home indefinitely. Lower-income families do not have hikikomori children because a socially withdrawing youth is forced to work outside the home.Kudō, Sadatsugu and Saitō, Tamaki.
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Alan Teo and colleagues conducted detailed diagnostic evaluations of 22 individuals with hikikomori and found that while the majority of cases fulfilled criteria for multiple psychiatric conditions, about 1 in 5 cases were primary hikikomori. According to Michael Zielenziger's book, Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation, the syndrome is more closely related to posttraumatic stress disorder. The author claimed that the hikikomori interviewed for the book had discovered independent thinking and a sense of self that the current Japanese environment could not accommodate. The syndrome also closely parallels the terms avoidant personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, agoraphobia or social anxiety disorder (also known as "social phobia").
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While hikikomori favour indoor activities, some venture outdoors occasionally. The withdrawal from society usually starts gradually. Affected people may appear unhappy, lose their friends, become insecure and shy, and talk less.
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A 2015 Cabinet Office survey estimated that 541,000 recluses aged 15 to 39 existed. In 2019, another survey showed that there are roughly 613,000 people aged 40 to 64 that fall into the category of "adult hikikomori", which Japan's welfare minister Takumi Nemoto referred to as a "new social issue." While hikikomori is mostly a Japanese phenomenon, cases have been found in the United States, United Kingdom, Oman, Holland, Germany, Spain, Italy, India, Sweden, South Korea, and France.
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Although she entered university, Mitsuko left to become a rental sister, to help hikikomori come out of their rooms. During this job, she met Yukio, her boyfriend and lover, and they travelled to Berlin together.
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The game was authored by Tatsuhiko Takimoto, the characters designed by Kendi Oiwa and produced by Circus (famous for D.C.: Da Capo). The limited edition of the eighth volume included a diploma signifying graduation from being a hikikomori.
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Welcome to the N.H.K. revolves around the lives of several young adults all living in or around the city of Tokyo. Many different lifestyles are shown though most of the time the story focuses on the concepts of being a hikikomori (a reclusive individual who withdraws from society), anime otaku, and having most of the characters experience intense feelings of depression and loneliness. The main protagonist is Tatsuhiro Satō, a university dropout entering his fourth year of unemployment. He leads a reclusive life as a hikikomori, ultimately coming to the conclusion that this happened due to some sort of conspiracy.
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Iwasaki was an unemployed hikikomori, which is someone who takes withdrawing from society to an extreme. He was living in his elderly uncle's home. Before the incident, he had a dispute with his neighbors but would not talk with his uncle about what had happened.
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The of Satō's imagination is supposedly a sinister conspiracy which aims to turn people into hikikomori and NEETs. No clear reason why they would do this is offered, although Satō considers the potential of an "army" of displaced individuals, and it is mentioned that hikikomori are created for the purpose of giving society someone to look down upon, making themselves feel superior. The majority of the N.H.K.'s work is done through the media, via broadcasting anime and other material that is likely to turn the viewer into an otaku. Throughout the series, many shots of advertising hoardings or movie posters incidentally displayed in other locations bear N.H.K. references.
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Shimeji Simulation follows Shijima Tsukishima, a former hikikomori who decides to attend high school. As she gets ready for school, however, she finds shimeji (a type of mushroom) sprouting from her head. At school, Shijima befriends Majime Yamashita, a girl sporting a fried egg on her head.
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The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare defines hikikomori as a condition in which the affected individuals refuse to leave their parents' house, do not work or go to school and isolate themselves away from society and family in a single room for a period exceeding six months. The psychiatrist Tamaki Saitō defines hikikomori as "a state that has become a problem by the late twenties, that involves cooping oneself up in one's own home and not participating in society for six months or longer, but that does not seem to have another psychological problem as its principal source". More recently, researchers have developed more specific criteria to more accurately identify hikikomori. During a diagnostic interview, trained clinicians evaluate for: # spending most of the day and nearly every day confined to home, # marked and persistent avoidance of social situations, and social relationships, # social withdrawal symptoms causing significant functional impairment, # duration of at least six months, and # no apparent physical or mental etiology to account for the social withdrawal symptoms.
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However, because of differing social expectations for maturing boys and girls, the most widely reported cases of hikikomori are from middle- and upper-middle-class families; sons, typically their eldest, refuse to leave the home, often after experiencing one or more traumatic episodes of social or academic failure. In The Anatomy of Dependence, Takeo Doi identifies the symptoms of hikikomori, and explains its prevalence as originating in the Japanese psychological construct of amae (in Freudian terms, "passive object love", typically of the kind between mother and infant). Other Japanese commentators such as academic Shinji Miyadai and novelist Ryū Murakami, have also offered analysis of the hikikomori phenomenon, and find distinct causal relationships with the modern Japanese social conditions of anomie, amae and atrophying paternal influence in nuclear family child pedagogy. Young adults may feel overwhelmed by modern Japanese society, or be unable to fulfill their expected social roles as they have not yet formulated a sense of personal honne and tatemae – one's "true self" and one's "public façade" – necessary to cope with the paradoxes of adulthood.
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She becomes the secretary of Hanasakigawa's student council during her second year of high school, figuring such a position would have a positive effect on her report card. Arisa is voiced by Ayasa Itō. Maggie Flecknoe voices her in the English version. In Star Beat, Arisa is a hikikomori who plays video games.
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After graduating from high school, Naruse entered an art university in Tokyo hoping to get a job in manga and anime.IDOL AND READ, p.71 However, she noticed that she was lacking in artistic talent and became a hikikomori, even spending half of a year only playing online games.でんぱブック, p.
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Castaway on the Moon (; lit. "Mr Kim's drifting experience": 표류: drifting; hanja: 金氏漂流記) is a 2009 South Korean romantic comedy film written and directed by Lee Hae-jun. It is a love story between a suicidal man turned castaway on Bamseom in the Han River and a Hikikomori woman who is addicted to Cyworld.
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Former fashion blogger Helena St. Tessero (Tavi Gevinson) becomes re-acquainted with Kaz in the first episode after he performs an exorcism on a possessed Chanel suit. However, the possession left Helena disillusioned with Neo Yokio and the capitalist system, eventually becoming a hikikomori, anti-capitalist critic and a foil to Kaz's vapid focus on fashion and social status.
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Chartverfolgung Alben: JP Her second album Ai wa Headphones kara was released on April 8, 2020 and features the track Kuyashisa wa Tane which is used as ending theme for the 2020 Digimon Adventure reboot. On September 3rd, 2020 Fujikawa announced the release of her third studio album called HiKiKoMoRi for November 24th of the same year.
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Satō at one point fears that Misaki may be an agent of this type. The final type of agents are bizarre goblin-like creatures who are grey all over but for a letter (usually "N", "H" or "K") written in yellow on their belly. These creatures appear to be the masterminds of the entire N.H.K. conspiracy, but more likely than not they are Satō's mental image of the spreading mindset or circumstances he associates with the N.H.K. In the novel, it is hinted that Tatsuhiro may not actually believe the conspiracy to exist but instead needed an imaginary enemy to vent his frustrations on and to help motivate him into overcoming his hikikomori ways. The real-life public broadcaster NHK, which is the source of the acronym that is parodied by the series, really does provide a support website for real-life hikikomori.
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Sometimes referred to as a social problem in Japanese discourse, hikikomori has a number of possible contributing factors. Alan Teo has summarized a number of potential cultural features that may contribute to its predominance in Japan. These include tendencies toward conformity and collectivism, overprotective parenting, and particularities of the educational, housing and economic systems. Acute social withdrawal in Japan appears to affect both genders equally.
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September 2001. Argument! Hikikomori. Tokyo: Studio Pot. Shuppan. 工藤 定次(著),斎藤 環(著),「永冨奈津恵」。「激論!ひきこもり」東京：ポット出版、９月、２００１。 #The inability of Japanese parents to recognize and act upon the youth's slide into isolation; soft parenting; or codependence between mother and son, known as amae in Japanese.
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The novel analyzes profusely the hikikomori phenomenon, which is relatively widespread in Japan. Welcome to the N.H.K. was adapted into a manga series, also written by Takimoto, with art by Kendi Oiwa. The manga was serialized between June 2004 and June 2007 in Kadokawa Shoten's manga magazine Shōnen Ace. The manga's forty chapters have been collected into eight bound volumes released in Japan and overseas.
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Peterson is a former staff member and chat room administrator of Incels.me, which is the largest incel website on the internet, a site he describes as more honest than other incel forums. He previously ran the "Incelcast", wherein he interviewed incels and discussed how they came to their position. His podcast also discussed the hikikomori phenomenon in Japan and the likelihood of the same thing happening in the Western world.
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Michael Hoffman, Life is too short for an undesirable satori Japan Times, 2013/03/31 They live in a period of Waithood and are NEET, parasite singles, freeters or hikikomori. The Satori generation in Japan is roughly equivalent to the Sampo generation in Korea,Beatrix Tan, SATORI GENERATION: THE NEW-AGE ENLIGHTENED STOICS OF JAPAN RGNN, November 23, 2015 and is somewhat similar to the Strawberry generation in Taiwan.
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When the characters in her name are read differently, her name is a pun on the phrase . ; : :A NEET who spends most of her time playing online games and taking care of her pet Muhi, a bear cub. Her name is a pun on the term , a portmanteau of hikikomori, otaku, and NEET. ; : :A robot who happens to be the landlady of the apartment all the characters are living in.
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Mafumafu has a Teru teru bōzu character called Mafuteru (まふてる) which acts as his guardian. Mafuteru is sometimes said to help Mafumafu with the illustrations and editing for his music videos. The internet series Hikikomori demo maru maru ga shitai! (ひきこもりでも○○がしたい!), also known as Hikimaru (ひきまる), started on 19 December 2018 with appearances by Mafumafu.
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He is turned into a hikikomori monster that turned best friends on each other. ; : :An excessively self-conscious high-school student who is turned into a melon monster. ; : :Yumoto's classmate and manager of the baseball club who enjoys the attention he gets from his "meganedanshi" look. When Yumoto's cold turned him into a meganedanshi as well, Rui's jealousy got him turned into a baseball bat dog like monster with glasses.
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Yoshirou Takagi, a recluse young adult (hikikomori), adopts a stray cat, Kiki, which magically turns into a catgirl, i.e. a human girl with feline characteristics, who attempts to help him deal with his solitude. Catgirls are common themes in otaku media. As Yoshirou teaches Kiki how to behave more like a human, he also makes her wear a maid cosplay and a Japanese school uniform, which are other references to the Akihabara cosplay culture.
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Madotsuki with the bike "effect" equipped, showcasing one of the surreal locations of the game Players control a hikikomori named at home in her apartment, the only area she can explore when awake. After Madotsuki falls asleep, she begins to dream. Madotsuki's dream resembles the room she's in, except she is able to leave the room. This takes Madotsuki to a nexus of 12 doors, with each leading to a different world.
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Her mission as stated in volume 5 is to determine whether Seimei really faked his death. She is a member of Septimal Moon, although her role in the organization (outside of the previously described mission) is unclear. She has tell-tale signs of a hikikomori, leaving her computer rarely and has even admitted to Nagisa she has no other friends. ; :A young man who still retains his ears and who first appears in volume 6.
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Eruna is a descendant of the original Ichinomiya who along with Mikagura and Ninomiya founded the academy. ; : :The granddaughter of Mikagura Academy's principal, who starts off as the sole member of the Going- Home Club but later joins Eruna's club. Seisa is a second-year at school, and is a hikikomori. She was once a member of the Art Club, but began secluding herself after she was betrayed by an upperclassman from the Photography Club.
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Later in the series, she is seen using the internet more often and that she has a part-time job as a simple coder, saying that a NEET and a hikikomori is not the same thing. Her name is derived from . ; : :A girl with short, straight- fringed hair who stalks whomever she falls in love with. She is also known for changing her manner of dress to partner those of her current love interest.
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In February 2006, Makoto began training under Gatokunyan wrestler Emi Sakura. Two months later Sakura left Gatokunyan to form her own promotion, Ice Ribbon, taking, among others, Makoto with her. Makoto would make her wrestling debut on July 25, 2006, at Ice Ribbon's third ever show, losing to then nine-year-old Riho in a minute. Makoto's early wrestling character was based on her real-life social phobia and growing up as a hikikomori child.
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Having little choice, he looked for a job in order to escape the hikikomori lifestyle. He found a fishy job for otaku and took it and as a result he ends up employed in spreading otaku culture for the Holy Eldant Empire. Shinichi has romantic feeling for Myusel and confesses to her at the end of the series. ; : :Myusel is a half-elf who is Shinichi's maid in the Holy Eldant Empire.
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She is a hikikomori and a cracking genius. She has disclosed that she has never attended school, and that she ran away from home some time before deciding to become a NEET detective. chapter 2 page 7 Her diet contains little more than Dr. Pepper, orders of noodles, hold everything except the broth, and sometimes ice cream; on Min's insistence she sometimes eats vegetables, typically leeks. Min threatens to withhold the ice cream unless Alice eats something.
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To pacify Misaki, he gives her a marriage registration form with his signature as a warranty that he will return, but Misaki signs and turns it in on the same day that he leaves for Ōsaka, which makes them officially married. ; : :Ryūnosuke is the resident of room 102. Ryūnosuke is a second-year student of Suiko. He is a hikikomori who rarely leaves his room, and usually communicates with others by text message or e-mail.
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After Ayano's suicide, he falls into a deep depression and becomes a hikikomori addicted to the internet. A year after, he was "sent" a mysterious "virus" named Ene, and as he was unable to control her actions, his lifestyle was at a loss. After stopping a terrorist attack with Ene, he became involved with Mekakushi Dan. He would later come to possess the "Retaining Eyes", which allow him to remember all of the past (including all other previous routes and otherwise diverging timelines).
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Others, like Dongfang Shuo, became hermits to practice Taoism, or in later centuries, Chan (Zen) Buddhism. It can also be due to psychological reasons, such as posttraumatic stress disorder, social anxiety disorder, apathy, autism, depression, obsessive–compulsive disorder, intellectual disability, schizoid personality disorder, schizotypal personality disorder or avoidant personality disorder. In Japan, an estimated 1.2 million people are part of the phenomenon of "Hikikomori" or "social withdrawal", a problem often blamed on Japan's education system and social pressure to succeed.
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The company's name stems from a cell phone app that can recognise and provide details on items and people via social networking. Takizawa meets Yutaka Itazu, a hikikomori and hacker, who studies Takizawa and the late Kondō's phones, able to access the Seleção requests. They discover Takizawa did not launch the missiles, but it was orchestrated by other Seleção, Daiju Mononobe and Ryō Yūki. After Takizawa leaves, Itazu discovers sixty more missiles will be launched, but is run over by Mononobe before he can inform Takizawa.
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He sold Drone (science fiction movie) to Yale Productions for a $15 million budgeted production set for 2020. Other projects in development are Lost Inside (psychological ghost thriller), Alpha (action science fiction) and Cain's Awakening (action/thriller). Pearce has written two novels, The Haunted Hikikomori in 2013 and Need Love in 2014. He also wrote a graphic novel titled Cain's Awakening (working with Brodie's Law and 2000 AD artist David Bircham), which has since been adapted into another feature film screenplay and project in development.
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At the third meeting, Yukio tells his speak-memory. He speaks of how he was traumatized as a boy by the Tokyo subway gas attacks of 1995 in his city, how his older brother constantly taunted him and how he enjoyed playing chess with his grandfather. When Yukio was sixteen, he retreated into his room and his “double-click world”. After four years of his hikikomori life, Mitsuko came as a rental sister to Yukio's house and began to talk to him through the door.
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In the end, they decide to continue their relationship while Misaki finishes her high school equivalency, and they go to college together. In the closing scene Sato signs a new contract proposal from Misaki that binds their actual lives together. ; : : A mysterious girl who claims to be a volunteer from a "charity project" to help hikikomori like Tatsuhiro. She has the tendency to lie and hides facts such as the fact that she dropped out of high school, but she does not mean any harm.
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In 1997 came the psychological thriller novel In the Miso Soup, set in Tokyo's Kabuki-cho red-light district, which won him the Yomiuri Prize for Fiction that year. Parasites (Kyōsei chū, 2000) is about a young hikikomori fascinated by war. It won him the 36th Tanizaki Prize. The same year Exodus From Hopeless Japan (Kibō no Kuni no Exodus) told of junior high school students who lose their desire to be involved in normal Japanese society and instead create a new one over the internet.
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In this play, Sakate focuses on the social phenomenon in Japan known as hikikomori, where young adults withdraw from society and isolate themselves typically in their homes. For the company’s 30th anniversary, the Phosphorescence Troupe presented four of Sakate’s original plays: Honchos’ Meeting in Cowra (カウラの班長会議 Kaura no hanchō kaigi, 2013), Return Home (帰還 Kikan), The Attic (屋根裏 Yaneura, 2002), and his newest play, There Was A Cinema Here (ここには映画館があった Koko ni wa eigakan ga atta, 2013).
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As the titular character in 2009's Princess Jamyung, Jung starred in her first period drama. She then played a hikikomori in Castaway on the Moon, arguably her most notable film yet. Both her 2011 big screen projects had elements of romance. She played a teacher in a small South Korean village who meets a North Korean officer in the war comedy/drama In Love and War, and in Kwak Kyung-taek's melodrama Pained, she played a hemophiliac who falls for her opposite, a man with analgesia, the inability to sense physical pain.
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Models talk actively about their "darksides" in their own way, and often reveal some "negative secrets" about their lives and pasts, such as the ones about delinquency, running away, hikikomori, bullying, betrayal, heartbreak, mental illness, trauma, suicide, self-image issue, sexuality, loneliness, abused childhood, domestic violence, and alcoholism. This is considered quite unique for a Japanese fashion magazine, as Japanese fashion magazines are in general relentlessly light-hearted from beginning to end. Ageha models often garner an almost cult-like popularity and attract large amounts of media attention.
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Rio Sakaki is a high school girl who cuts herself and has attempted suicide a few times. She is unloved by her family—her stepmother is especially abusive, and her father, while aware of the abuse, does nothing to stop it. At the beginning of the manga, Rio meets Sahoko Higa, a classmate who spent two years as a hikikomori. They fall in love and begin spending a lot of time together, but Rio's inner demons, especially those that involve the gaps in her memory and her deceased baby sister, threaten to cause Rio to relapse into a suicidal state.
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Bong, along with French film directors Michel Gondry and Leos Carax, directed a segment of Tokyo! (2008), a triptych feature telling three separate tales of the city. Bong's segment is about a man who has lived for a decade as a Hikikomori—the term used in Japan for people unable to adjust to society who do not leave their homes—and what happens when he falls in love with a pizza delivery girl. Bong's fourth feature film Mother (2009) is the story of a doting mother who struggles to save her disabled son from a murder accusation.
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The dominant nexus of hikikomori centres on the transformation from youth to the responsibilities and expectations of adult life. Indications are that advanced industrialized societies such as modern Japan fail to provide sufficient meaningful transformation rituals for promoting certain susceptible types of youth into mature roles. As do many societies, Japan exerts a great deal of pressure on adolescents to be successful and perpetuate the existing social status quo. A traditionally strong emphasis on complex social conduct, rigid hierarchies and the resulting, potentially intimidating multitude of social expectations, responsibilities and duties in Japanese society contribute to this pressure on young adults.
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One day just when his life seems entirely unchanging, he meets Misaki Nakahara, a mysterious girl who claims to be able to cure Tatsuhiro of his hikikomori ways. She presents him with a contract basically outlining that once a day they would meet in the evening in a local park where Misaki would lecture to Tatsuhiro in an effort to rid him of his lifestyle. During these outings, many subjects are discussed, though they almost always pertain in some way to psychology or psychoanalysis. One of their first meetings in fact deals with interpreting Tatsuhiro's recent dreams.
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Owing to her background as a hikikomori, she's also really prone to spouting out memes. As Eri begins to grow more as an idol, she becomes more interested in how other idols are able to stand out. But when Eri encounters a series of strange incidents, the truth about her producer, Reiko Ozaki, comes out as she also reveal how she couldn't deal with the gossip on the net during her time as an idol. In response, Eri decides to trust in her producer as she adapts Ozaki's unfinished song Precog and continues her career as a live idol.
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She manipulates Shū, spiking his drink with sedatives at a bar and makes him believe they had sex so she can blackmail him into getting in good relations with his father. ; :Mejiro is a popular writer of yaoi manga, treated with great reverence by the other Sisterhood. Due to her social anxiety disorder (hikikomori) she is barricaded in her room and has only been seen a few times by Chieko. Her only communication with the Sisterhood are sheets of paper slipped under her door, and the Sisterhood has developed a ritual of preparing questions for Mejiro and slipping them to her.
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The story centers around high school student Masamune Izumi who loves writing light novels. Having no artistic skill himself, Masamune always gets his novels illustrated by an anonymous partner using the pen name "Eromanga", who is known for drawing questionably perverted images despite being extremely reliable. In addition to balancing his passion and school, Masamune is also stuck with taking care of his only family member—his younger step-sister Sagiri Izumi. A hikikomori by nature, Sagiri shut herself in her room for over a year and constantly bosses Masamune around despite his attempts to get her to leave her room.
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She is a hikikomori who never leaves her room, even to eat, instead relying on her step brother to bring food to her room. She later starts inviting her brother into her room and opens up more to the world, even venturing outside the boundaries of her room. Even though Masamune and several other people know that she is "Eromanga Sensei", she always stalls the conversation by saying she does not know someone of that name. According to her blog, the pen name is derived from the name of an island and does not have any relationship with any ecchi manga.
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They have an popsicle party, where they learn their fates on the wooden stick, and that the intention of the last game were simply for entertainment. Shun and Takeru live while Ichika, Eiji, and Kotaro are killed by a Matryoshka doll with lasers that disintegrated them. Shun and Takeru emerge to the top of the cube, where they see crowds cheer for them, while a hikikomori, who have been watching them from his room, goes out of his house, possibly to find the real identity of "God". Takeru celebrates while Shun kneels in despair from all of his losses, stating that "there is no God".
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He becomes the leader of a vigilante group known as the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, who change the hearts of criminals and other malevolent people through the Metaverse. He forms it together with school delinquent Ryuji Sakamoto, fashion model Ann Takamaki and Morgana, a mysterious cat-like creature. More people join the group throughout the game, including art prodigy Yusuke Kitagawa, student council president Makoto Niijima, hikikomori computer hacker Futaba Sakura, and cultured corporate heiress Haru Okumura. Also interacting with Joker are Goro Akechi, a high school detective; Sae Niijima, public prosecutor and Makoto's older sister; and the residents of the Velvet Room, Igor and his two assistants Caroline and Justine.
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As he learns to survive on the island, his cry for help scrawled in the sand is seen by Kim Jung-yeon (Jung Ryeo-won), a hikikomori who spots him while engaging in her nightly habit of photographing the moon. They soon begin exchanging messages, with Jung-yeon venturing out of her house at night to throw bottled messages onto the island, and Seong-geun writing his replies in the sand. Seong-geun also manages to cultivate crops to prepare noodles for an instant noodles packet of jajangmyeon. A torrential storm arrives, destroying Seong-geun's farm and sweeping away the possessions he has collected.
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Not only does she have to grapple with her own social struggles, Nao is also plagued with an unhappy family life. Her father, unable to find a job in Japan, falls into a state of depression – withdrawing from the world and going into a state of social seclusion, or hikikomori – and attempts suicide twice. Her mother is constantly absent from the house, busy with her new job at a publishing firm, which she has taken up to compensate for her husband's unemployment. Unable to find hope for the future in her current circumstances, Nao is considering suicide when she first starts writing her diary at a French maid café in Akihabara.
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When Haruka's illness causes him to have an attack and pass away, Shintarō breaks down at the loss of his only friend and becomes a hikikomori like in the other timelines. It is later revealed Takane watched some of this happen from mostly afar (while going mostly unnoticed by Shintarō and Haruka, when she tries to visit Haruka's hospital room to see Haruka). Takane would later seemingly commit suicide; becoming Ene, who again enters Shintarō's life, and decides to help him come out of his shell herself this time. Shintarō thus befriends Ene in a much different fashion from before, genuinely viewing her as a friend as time goes on.
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Kakeru later finds out how his father created conflicts all over the world to speed up history and reach year 2056, obsessed that his deceased lover Haruka will reincarnate under the same environment with the same soul and in the same body. ; : : Senri is a soft- spoken, gentle hikikomori with the ability to use water. Because his body couldn't handle the strain of harbouring a full ability, his brother Akito stole some of it with Aion's help. Although he mainly appears in Koharu's route, he is often shown as the prominent figure in scans and images by Otomate and classed as a main character.
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In the manga and novel, a concrete link between the public broadcaster NHK and Satō's Nihon Hikikomori Kyokai is implied; in the anime, although the conspiracy is still named NHK, no such correspondence is drawn and it appears that the NHK does not even exist as a broadcaster in the anime's version of Japan (in the anime, Misaki has never heard of the acronym when Satō says it to her). This may have been because the anime was broadcast on TV channels operated by other Japanese broadcasting companies, thus implying that it related to the real TV company and could have been interpreted as slander against a competitor.
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Directed by Bong Joon-ho. Teruyuki Kagawa stars as a Tokyo shut-in, or hikikomori, who has not left his apartment in a decade. His only link to the outside world is through his telephone, which he uses to command every necessity from a series of random and anonymous delivery people, including the pizza that he orders every Saturday and the hundreds of discarded pizza cartons he meticulously stacks in and around his cramped apartment, along with books, cardboard tubes from toilet paper. But one day is different — his pizza arrives thanks to a lovely young woman (Yū Aoi) who succeeds in catching the shut-in's eye.
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The series debuted on December 27, 2010 and is officially targeted toward girls ages 15–20, mainly high school and college students, who were too shy to express their feelings toward others. On its official debut, the main character design was not revealed and that the character "Just won't come out" of her egg-shaped house. Sanrio stated that her official release describes her as being "withdrawn" and implores her fans to send her as many messages and Tweets as possible to encourage her to show her face, leading to criticisms of her being a hikikomori. On January 25, 2011, the official character design of Mell was revealed for the first time.
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Near the end of the series, Sato's true feelings for her are revealed when Misaki makes up another contract that will bind them together as a couple forever. Despite how he feels, he rejects the contract thinking that he has to protect her from his own condition, and believing she deserves someone much better than he is even if it would mean that he reverts back to being a hikikomori. Later, Sato finds a suicide note from Misaki, but because of an earlier conversation he knows where she will be. Sato eventually finds Misaki and confesses the truth that he needs and loves her in an attempt to prevent her from going through with the suicide.
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She gets married and has a healthy kid, though on New Year's Eve, before her marriage she asks Tatsuhiro if he wants to have an illicit affair with her and have sex in a love hotel they were standing in front of, but Tatsuhiro reminds her that since she's happy she should have a good life. ; : : Tatsuhiro's classmate in high school, who was the class representative back then. They meet frequently in manga, but neither of them realizes the existence of each other until later. After her father died, she had to work in order to support herself and her brother, who is also a hikikomori, though she ended up entangled in a shady pyramid scheme.
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By chance, a hikikomori named Makoto Sugihara finds a strange breastplate buried in the woods. When he places his palm on the breast plate, its design gets burned into his palm while the action awakens a girl named Dogu-chan, a hyperactive yōkai hunter from the Jōmon period with large breasts. Because he had touched her breastplate, Makoto is now bound to Dogu-chan as she adapts to modern day life, fighting yōkai in magic armor formed by her dogū assistant Dokigoro while slowly prying Makoto out of his shell as he is dragged into her misadventures, whether he likes it or not. In the sequel, a college student named Shouta Tsuikimiya moves into the house where his archaeologist father, Yuzo, had last been living when he disappeared.
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The English edition of the manga is published by Tokyopop, and the first volume was released in October 2006. The novel was also adapted into a 24-episode anime television series by Gonzo which aired in Japan between July and December 2006 on Chiba TV. ADV Films announced at Anime Central that they acquired the English rights to the anime, and they released DVD volume one in October 2007 with volume two released in December 2007. In 2008, the anime became one of over 30 ADV titles acquired by Funimation. In Japan, NHK refers to the public broadcaster Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai, but within the series the main character believes it stands for , which is a reference to the protagonist's claim of a subversive conspiracy led by NHK (the real-life broadcaster) to create hikikomori.
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Although the connection between modern communication technologies, such as the Internet, social media and video games, and the phenomenon is not conclusively established, it is considered at least an exacerbating factor that can deepen and nurture withdrawal. Previous studies of hikikomori in South Korea and Spain found that some of them showed signs of Internet addiction, though researchers do not consider this to be the main issue. However, according to associate professor of psychiatry at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Takahiro Kato, video games and social media have reduced the amount of time that people spent outside and in social environments that require direct face to face interaction. The emergence of mobile phones and then smartphones may also have deepened the issue, given that people can continue their addiction to gaming and online surfing anywhere, even in bed.
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These doctrines, while part of modern Japanese society, are increasingly being rejected by Japanese youth in varying ways such as hikikomori, freeter, NEET (Not currently engaged in Employment, Education, or Training), and parasite singles. The term "Hodo-Hodo zoku" (the "So-So tribe") applies to younger workers who refuse promotion to minimize stress and maximize free time. Beginning in the 1960s, the pressure on Japanese youth to succeed began successively earlier in their lives, sometimes starting before pre-school, where even toddlers had to compete through an entrance exam for the privilege of attending one of the best pre-schools. This was said to prepare children for the entrance exam of the best kindergarten, which in turn prepared the child for the entrance exam of the best elementary school, junior high school, high school, and eventually for their university entrance exam.
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Contemporary phenomena such as hikikomori and parasite singles are seen as examples of late Japanese culture's growing problem of the new generation growing up unable to deal with the complexities of honne–tatemae and pressure of an increasingly consumerist society. Though tatemae and honne are not a uniquely Japanese phenomenon, some Japanese feel that it is unique to Japan; especially among those Japanese who feel their culture is unique in having the concepts of "private mind" and "public mind". Although there might not be direct single word translations for honne and tatemae in some languages, they do have two-word descriptions; for example in English "private mind" and "public mind". Some researchers suggest that the need for explicit words for tatemae and honne in Japanese culture is evidence that the concept is relatively new to Japan, whereas the unspoken understanding in many other cultures indicates a deeper internalization of the concepts.
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These illustrations of how > new technologies are being used to renegotiate one's self on a personal > basis as well as in relation to society as a whole are especially germane to > a Japan that seeks balance within itself and the world around it. as has his grounded theorization of media-reproduced "surveillance" in Japanese society."Surveillance: Japan's sustaining principle," Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 28, Issue 1 (Summer 1994):93-102. This article served as the theoretical core of Dorota Krysinska's “Hikikomori (Social Withdrawal) in Japan: Discourses of Media and Scholars; Multicausal Explanations of the Phenomenon”. Holden's pithy turn of phrase ("Discreet statements of difference for those wishing to be considered as discrete statements") -- which aptly captures the expression of individual identity through material culture under conditions of extensive social control -- was reprised by Brian J. McVeigh in his Japanese Higher Education as Myth (2002:120).
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The limited edition of chapter 4 of the manga stated that its true name is , but due to the overly long name, Jack instead called him "Red" due to his resemblance to said monster. ; :Voiced by: Kentarō Itō (motion comic) (Japanese); Michael Yurchak (English) :A short and timid alien who was Rena's fan, formerly a prince from his home world who represented them in the Star Cluster Council. He took refuge on Earth after most of his kind were destroyed, taking a hikikomori lifestyle with his only connection to the outside world being an online website dedicated to Rena. Pigmon ended up befriending three fellow Rena fans who learned of his identity and exploit him into hiring Bris to kill those who troll the site. This results in Pygmon’s death when Adad attacked Rena’s concert to force the guilt-ridden alien into showing up and take an attack meant for Rena.
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Takuma Sakamoto is a hikikomori gamer who is mysteriously transported to the virtual world of his favourite MMORPG, Cross Reverie, with the appearance of his own character in the game, the Demon Lord Diablo. The two young girls who summoned him, the pantherian Rem and the elf Shera, attempt to use a spell to make Takuma their servant, but due to his magic ring with the ability "Magic Reflection", the spell rebounds, and both end up with magic collars stuck on their necks, thus becoming his servants instead. With a serious case of social anxiety, Takuma decides to act like his character while interacting with others, and makes use of his high stats and vast knowledge of Cross Reverie's lore to survive in his new environment, traveling along with Rem and Shera to look for a way to remove their slave collars while helping them with their own, personal issues that led them to summon him in the first place.
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Three years later, Lee made his first solo directorial effort Castaway on the Moon (2009), in which he continued whimsically exploring themes of alienation in modern life. Titled in Korean "The Adventures of Kim" or "Kim's Island," Jung Jae-young played Mr. Kim, a businessman who after a suicide attempt gets marooned on a tiny, uninhabited island on the Han River in the middle of metropolitan Seoul, while he's observed by hikikomori Miss Kim (Jung Ryeo-won) through a telescope in her bedroom, which compels her to step outside again. Lee said that in making the quirky romantic/black comedy, he wanted to give viewers a message of hope. Like his previous film, Lee's Castaway on the Moon traveled the international film festival circuit, winning the NETPAC Award at the 29th Hawaii International Film Festival, the Black Dragon Audience Award at the 12th Udine Far East Film Festival, the Audience Award at the 9th New York Asian Film Festival, and the Special Jury Prize at the 14th Fantasia International Film Festival.
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