Japan's “Hikikomori” Population Could Top 10 Million | Nippon ...

Not only does a hikikomori person lose many years of their life in isolation, the condition also ...

Japan's health ministry defines hikikomori as people who have remained isolated at home for at le...

But in Japan half a million people live as modern-day hermits. They are known as hikikomori – rec...

1 Andy Furlong, The Japanese hikikomori phenomenon: acute social withdrawal among young people, T...

Although the term "hikikomori," which describes people who shun social contact and seek extreme d...