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posted by martyb on Friday September 09 2016, @09:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the get-out-of-the-basement dept.

An estimated 541,000 people aged between 15 and 39 in Japan avoid social contact and shut themselves in their homes, according to a government survey released Wednesday [JS required].

The figure compares with the previous Cabinet Office survey in 2010 that found an estimated 696,000 such people — known as hikikomori — across the country. Despite the decline, the latest survey does not give an overall picture of the full extent of the phenomenon as it did not include those aged 40 or older.

But the survey does highlight a trend in which people who have withdrawn from society have done so for longer periods, as those who have shut themselves in their homes for at least seven years accounted for about 35 percent of the total.

It also showed the number of such recluses between the ages of 35 and 39 has doubled, according to the survey.

The article mentions there is a nonprofit formed to help hikikomori re-integrate with society. Wikipedia names NPO lila as one.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 10 2016, @01:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 10 2016, @01:39AM (#399877)

    Know your slurs.
    Its yellow fever for a white who likes asians.
    And jungle fever for a white who likes blacks.

  • (Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Saturday September 10 2016, @02:27AM

    by Yog-Yogguth (1862) Subscriber Badge on Saturday September 10 2016, @02:27AM (#399901) Journal

    Just as long as you're aware that yellow fever [wikipedia.org] is an actual viral disease. 30000 die each year.

    Walking around telling people you've got yellow fever will be misunderstood in most of the world :P

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday September 10 2016, @02:19PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday September 10 2016, @02:19PM (#399989) Journal

    Yes, yes, and you might also call someone who's white but wants to be Asian, "egg." "Asian fever" is the more polite form of "yellow fever."

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