Shutting Out the Sun
By Todd Shimoda at The Asian Review of Books (06.12.2006). Reviews Michael Zielenziger, Shutting Ou the Sun : How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation, Nan A. Talese, 2006 :
MICHAEL ZIELENZIGER, a former Tokyo-based bureau chief for Knight Ridder Newspapers, illuminates the sad but intriguing case of Japan's hikikomori, mostly young people who shut themselves away in their rooms, refusing to come out for months or years. His premise is that Japanese society with all its faults has created the hikikomori and other social ills such as a high rate of suicide, a rock-bottom birthrate, and a "sullen and desultory" population afraid to be individuals.
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