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	.....Shutting Themselves In.....
		And though female hikikomori exist and may be undercounted, experts estimate that about 80 percent of the hikikomori are male, some as young as 13 or 14 and some who live in their rooms for 15 years or more.
		At the same time, hikikomori were making headlines for sensationalistic crimes, like the kidnapping of a 9-year-old girl by a shut-in who hid her in his room for almost a decade.
		Any urge a hikikomori might have to venture into the world to have a romantic relationship or sex, for instance, is overridden by his self-loathing and the need to shut his door so that his failures, real or perceived, will be cloaked from the world.
	www.public.iastate.edu /~yikes/hikikomori.html (4982 words)

	StyleStation : The cure for Hikikomori
		Hikikomori, a noun, adjective and a verb all rolled into one, is a psychological atrophy Japanese youth are increasingly withdrawing under.
		Teenage boys are especially prone to Hikikomori and lock themselves in their rooms (in some cases for as long as 15 years) spending time on the internet, playing video games and listening to rock music.
		Hikikomori like you showed in you're post is born from the death of you're traditional brick and moor community and the advent of a more virtual one and also the cultural pressures in Asian, more specifically Japan.
	stylestation.typepad.com /home/2006/01/the_cure_for_hi.html (1090 words)

	Hikikomori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The hikikomori's fear of social pressure and the inability to effect change in their situation may turn into frustration or even anger.
		Some hikikomori have physically attacked their parents, though most of the time anger manifests in other ways, such as nightly harassment by banging on walls while the rest of the family sleeps.
		When hikikomori came into the public spotlight, mass media sources initially argued that the loss of a social frame of reference might lead hikikomori to commit violent or criminal acts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hikikomori (3239 words)

	Untitled-2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Hikikomori is the Japanese word for the phenomenon of isolation and social withdrawl by disaffected young people.
		Hikikomori is also the title of the new full-length album by the Lucky Bastards.
		Despite the Japanese origins of the word, Hikikomori the album is very much about growing up, and growing older, in Washington, D.C. Brothers Phil and Derrick Martin condense their experience of fl life in Washington into 12 songs that explore cultural disaffection, religion, incarceration, isolation, and finally, hope.
	theluckybastards.com (436 words)

	Taylor - Social Problems in Japan
		A "hikikomori" (roughly, "pull inside") is a teenager, young adult, or sometimes an adult into his or her 30s and 40s who will rarely or ever leave the home or even the bedroom for an extended period (months, years, or indefinitely).
		The hikikomori problem is certainly real, and nearly everyone in Japan will be one or two degrees of separation from some hikikomori-like case, yet perceptions of the problem have been badly warped by this looseness with data and, Dziesinki also argues (2003, 2005), by the promulgation of stereotypes based on a few shocking cases.
		The hikikomori in particular may illuminate the pathway by which such social victims begin to acquire something like a quasi-divinized status both in traditional and contemporary settings, and, more importantly for present purposes, how scapegoating structures social existence in Japan and may be implicated in one way or another in all dissociative behaviors.
	www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu /ap1201/taylor.htm (8902 words)

	Japan's Lost Generation: Social Theory
		The ‘komori’ part of the word ‘hikikomori’ is taken from the verb ‘komoru’ which means ‘to retire’, ‘to go into retreat’, and is a reference to the old practice by Buddhist monks of going into retreat to find their inner selves.
		Hikikomori in their late twenties or thirties most likely became withdrawn in their high school years and because the hikikomori issue has only come to be recently recognized in Japanese society, these individuals languished in their rooms for years or even decades.
		So I conjecture that the hikikomori phenomenon is one of the young, ranging from junior high school to the first years of college, when the expectations and pressures of society upon the role of a person as they enter society at large is most acutely felt.
	towakudai.blogs.com /my_weblog/social_theory/index.html (11340 words)

	Total eclipse of the son: why are Japanese youth withdrawing from society? - Health Psychology Today - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Hikikomori (the term refers to the behavior itself and to those who suffer from it) was first recognized in the early 1990s.
		One million Japanese, or almost 1 percent of the population, are estimated to suffer from hikikomori, defined as a withdrawal from friends and family for months or even years.
		Some 40 percent of hikikomori are below the age of 21, according to a 2001 government report.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1175/is_1_36/ai_100736559 (443 words)

	GGL - Hikikomori: Stop The World, I Want To Get Off (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Hikikomori is the Japanese term that refers to the phenomenon of reclusive adolescents and young adults who have chosen to withdraw from social life — often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement due to various personal and social factors in their lives.
		According to estimates by psychologist Saito Tamaki, who first coined the phrase, there may be one million hikikomori in Japan, a figure equivalent to 20 percent of all male adolescents in Japan or one percent of the total Japanese population.
		Hikikomori is a quite new phenomenon, which, for now, is only known in the land of the rising sun.
	www.ggl.com /news.php?NewsId=2580 (1124 words)

	Smart Mobs: The Hikikomori
		Hikikomori is a term used to describe a growing group of young people in Japan who lock themselves in their bedrooms for months if not years, reports the NY Times.
		Experts can't agree on the number of hikikomori in Japan (figures rangefrom 100,000 to a 1,000,000) but the hikikomori tend to be young males, living with their parents.
		Hikikomoris have got themselves a name in Japan, but they can be found as well in the States as in Europe: a number are now able to make a living out of their skills, have their food delivered, their bills prepaid.
	www.smartmobs.com /archive/2006/01/18/the_hikikomori.html (661 words)

	Hikikomori: Homicidal Teens of Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He claims that Japan's crime rates are the highest they've been in 32 years, and that violent crime among juveniles has increased 15% in the first six months of 2000.
		Larimer interviews hikikomori, Japanese teens seeking to remedy their reclusive problem, and their psychiatrists to bolster his view.
		One family is even facing charges for killing their teenage son because they believed he was plotting a crime similar to those described earlier.
	www.wdog.com /rider/writings/hikikomori.htm (1198 words)

	"hikikomori" definition from Double-Tongued Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Loosely translated as “social withdrawal,” hikikomori refers to the state of anomie into which an increasing number of young Japanese seem to fall these days.
		For reasons ranging from bullying to exam failure, some young people are shutting themselves away in their rooms and having as little direct contact with the outside world as possible.
		It’s a condition in which they seclude themselves in their rooms for weeks at a time (though the causes seem to go well beyond fear of women to traumatic experiences from the past, such as being bullied at school).
	www.doubletongued.org /index.php/dictionary/hikikomori (374 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Correspondent \| Hikikomori violence
		The phenomenon of social withdrawal, or hikikomori was first drawn to the attention of the Japanese public following a series of highly publicised crimes.
		Two years ago, a 17 year old hikikomori sufferer left his isolation and hijacked a bus, killing a passenger.
		Masayuki says the problem of hikikomori is so vast that Japan's rudimentary welfare system cannot cope with the problem.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/programmes/correspondent/2336883.stm (620 words)

	TIMEasia.com \| GizmoLand! \| Japan's Lost Generation \| 5/1/2000 - 5/8/2000
		Loosely translated as "social withdrawal, "hikikomori refers to the state of anomie into which an increasing number of young Japanese seem to fall these days.
		Hikikomori is a consequence of the phenomenal growth of the Japanese economy during the latter half of the 20th century and the tremendous technological progress the country made during that time.
		Japanese youth could not afford to be socially withdrawn if their parents were not affluent enough to provide them a home, meals and extras that have come to be thought of as basics-audio and video equipment, software, mobile phones, computers.
	www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/2000/0501/japan.essaymurakami.html (992 words)

	Psychology Today: Total Eclipse of the Son (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A syndrome known as hikikomori, in which the outside world is shunned, is wreaking havoc on young people in Japan, a country known for its communal values.
		Some 40 percent of hikikomori are below the age of 21.
		Hattori's findings are reminiscent of the now-discredited theory of the "refrigerator mother," which attributed autism to a detached style of parenting.
	www.psychologytoday.com /articles/pto-20030122-000001.html (412 words)

	Hikikomori: Tokyo Plastic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In real life Japan, a hikikomori is a person who has decided to drop out of society, often retreating into the dark confines of their apartment or bedroom, never stepping outside and shunning the light of day for years.
		As the Japanese news often reports, these hikikomori often become violent, obsessive, and begin acting on dark impulses that grow and fester as a result of their extreme seclusion.
		But once she tries her hacking hand in Tokyo, she is quickly swept up into a web of fear and crime as one determined hikikomori targets her and forces her into a dangerous course of action that could ultimately destroy her, her family, and the life of her new best friend.
	www.bahx.com /abouthikikomori.html (248 words)

	MADE IN JAPAN - From Video to Genocide
		Translated literally as “those who retreat,” hikikomori are the frighteningly logical extension of otaku,”; the buzzword for Japanese teens from last decade.
		Not so with hikikomori, who retreat from society into complete nothingness, holing themselves up in their bedrooms at their parents’ homes and doing anything to fill the hours.
		While most hikikomori choose to stay online or absorbed in comic books, some get a bit more proactive in their opposition to culture.
	www.viceland.com /issues/v8n9/htdocs/made_in.php (1013 words)

	hermit's thatch: Hikikomori (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		But at least hikikomori is considered of social and economic as much as strictly psychological factors.
		Phobias and hikikomori may have as much to do with positive alienation (a la R. Laing) from a corrupt, aimless, and amoral culture.
		The desert fathers, the sadhus of India, the Japanese mendicant-poet hermits, the Chinese mountain hermits and so many other eremites all may have shared this sort of positive alienation and a touch of universal insight...
	www.hermitary.com /archives/000197.html (220 words)

	Mind Hacks: New York Times on 'hikikomori'
		A few days after our post on 'hikikomori' - the extreme social withdrawal increasingly seen in Japanese adolescents - the New York Times published an in-depth article on the controversy surrounding the phenomenon.
		For all the attention, though, hikikomori remains confounding.
		While hikikomori is described as "confounding", I don't see it being different from any other kind of withdrawal.
	www.mindhacks.com /blog/2006/01/new_york_times_on_h.html (549 words)

	Health - Health Problems - Hikikomori - M/Cyclopedia of New Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The term, Hikikomori refers to people who isolate themselves in their rooms for long periods, on an average of thirty-nine months, totally devoid of contact with others.
		The Hikikomori phenomenon has a number of possible contributing factors, such as individuals feeling overwhelmed with modern society and potentially being unable to fulfill their expected social roles.
		In accordance, due to Hikikomori patients’ reticence to leave their room, counseling via online environments would be the most efficient way to resolve this social issue.
	wiki.media-culture.org.au /index.php/Health_-_Health_Problems_-_Hikikomori (364 words)

	Hikikomori: Tokyo Plastic
		The official DVD of Hikikomori: Tokyo Plastic has been released and is available through exclusive distribution with Amazon.com.
		"Hikikomori: Tokyo Plastic" is scheduled to premiere for the first time ever in New York City at the Imaginasian Theater on 59th Street and 2nd Avenue in Manhattan.
		In "Hikikomori: Tokyo Plastic," Naomi, a young Japanese hacker living in New York travels back to Japan and is quickly swept up into a web of fear and crime as one determined hikikomori leads her and her best friend Izumi into a dangerous web that could ultimately destroy them.
	www.tokyonyc.com /hikikomori.html (1839 words)

	Japan Forum - hikikomori and otaku (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Second, while the behavior of otaku and hikikomori reading manga and playing video games on the surface may seem similar, their motivations are very different.
		It doesn’t matter if it’s a manga, a TV show, or a videogame- the purpose they do these activities is to take their mind off and mask the real problem in their lives; the pain of human interaction.
		I had one female hikikomori tell me that after several months she became bored with these activities and began to simply stare blankly at the wall for hours.
	www.japan-zone.com /forum/?board=104;action=display;num=1112807277 (386 words)

	Japan's Lost Generation: January 3, 2005 - January 9, 2005
		Here are links to several valuable Japanese sites that provide more reliable hard data on hikikomori than the secondhand reportage of the BBC and Asahi articles and their like on hikikomori which have been floating around the internet for the last four years.
		For the time being, let's assume that the hikikomori prognosis of social withdraw has a kernel of commonsense truth and condition is, in some respects, legitimate.
		When the hikikomori problem was first widely publicized, demographics of hikikomori victims suggested it to be a youth based 'illness' which also appears to primarily afflict young males.
	towakudai.blogs.com /my_weblog/2005/week1/index.html (1867 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Correspondent \| Japan: The Missing Million
		The boy in the kitchen suffers from a social disorder known in Japan as hikikomori, which means to withdraw from society.
		He says that young people the world over fear school or suffer agoraphobia, but hikikomori is a specific condition that doesn't exist elsewhere.
		Most hikikomori sufferers are male, often the eldest son.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/correspondent/2334893.stm (792 words)

	GGL - Hikikomori: Stop The World, I Want To Get Off Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		These terms refer to young people who are trapped between adolescence and adulthood, existing without a job, a real life network or a career and don't have a clue what to do with their life.
		Hikikomori is a phenomenon well-known to her, although she emphasizes that it is now mainly Japan-bound.
		She states that the symptoms ascribed to hikikomori are not culturally unique to Japan or its eductional system at all.
	www.ggl.com /news.php?NewsId=2580&Page=2 (1364 words)

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