I knew about the hikikomori, but not the programs designed to draw them out.
Shutting Themselves In (Published 2006)
Maggie Jones article on Japan’s ‘hikikomori,’ young people, 80 percent of them male, who retreat into their rooms for up to years at a time; phenomenon is variously attributed to smothering mothers, absent, overworked fathers, school bullying, lackluster economy, academic pressure and video games; estimates of number of hikikomori range between 100,000 and 320,000, but one is as high as one million, 1 percent of population; problem affects not just hikikomori and their families but also Japan as whole as it struggles with sagging economy, plummeting birth rate and youth crisis; photos (L)
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