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Hikikomori: Japanese Urban Hideaways

October 10th 2006 03:55

Hikikomori

We all do it. Get up in the morning and feel like we barely have the strength to leave our room. All we want to do is to sit down at the computer all day, behind a screen, where the real world can't hurt us.

This is what the Japanese call Hikikomori. Those who can't take the stress of modern life, who end up shutting themselves away from the world. And with an approximate fifty thousand Hikikomori students in Japan, the problems not going away anytime soon.

Really who could blame some of them? In a country where competition is so fierce in schools, Universities and workplaces that ‘cram schools’ or holiday studies are accepted as a daily norm, the stress of the everyday has got to be fairly intense. And maybe, if you don’t open your door, it won’t get in.

So next time you consider claiming Aussie students don’t have enough homework/study time/school time, just think about Japan’s Hikikomori situation for a few seconds.

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Comment by Chantal

October 10th 2006 08:14

I personally couldnt handle it! I dont have enough focus or the attention span. I feel extremely sorry for those kids, I've known people who have suffered that kind of pressure and sometimes it does more damage than good!

Comment by Deorre

October 12th 2006 17:16

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Hikikomori seems to some degree an apt (survival-based) response to the intense pressures brought on by our seemingly abstract brains. And all that that entails.

Interesting stuff.

Comment by Lilla

October 13th 2006 08:33

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Hi B,

I enjoyed this blog for its possibilities...and comapssion...and wanted to say that.

Keep writing, you're almost there in expressing it ....fully

Lilla
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Comment by Brenton

July 21st 2007 07:14

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What really concverns me is that alot of the pressures the could be implicated in the Hikikomori issue are held up as solutions in Australais education system.

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