All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Hikikomori Life The hard life of a game addict. Feel the atmosphere of loneliness if you can. How infuriating it is when everything distracts you. And so I ...

The Japanese government estimates that there are more than 1 million hikikomori, recluses who shun society, amounting to 1% of the country’s population. The figure derives from a pair of surveys. The ...

They’re known as the ‘lost generation’. And while it may seem like a uniquely Japanese phenomenon, experts warn news.com.au ...

Hamish J. McLeod has received funding for work on Hikikomori from The Sasakawa Foundation. Tadaaki Furuhashi receives funding from Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) in Japan Maki Rooksby ...

Hikikomori is a psychological condition which makes people shut themselves off from society, often staying in their houses for months on end. There are at least half a million of them in Japan. It was ...