My life may be economically more stable if I become a psychiatrist in Italy, but that is not the point. The reason I chose this difficult path is that I wanted to be fully immersed in the culture that gave me the power to live on and saved…

A fresh feeling that a Japanese ingenious and unspoilt hikikomori girl has. It must be including something common, not only in Japan but to many hikikomori girls all around the world. It may not be "culture" any longer. Here is one shape o…

We are sending you these articles as tojisha of hikikomori. But for what purpose are we speaking out? What can be done by it, and what cannot? Let's go back to the basics and think.

A psychiatrist who is not native in the Japanese language but specializing in hikikomori in Japan is about to be born. Francesco Pantò, from Sicily, Italy, commonly known as Fran. This is the new series to tell what he is, with beautiful p…

If the notion of "hikikomori" expands, will not everybody be called "hikikomori" in the end? Why dare to choose the identity of "hikikomori"? Was the word "hikikomori" unnecessary? Let's put all those problems in order.

The notion of "hikikomori" we use today was created over twenty years ago, but it was only the image of "a dark and dangerous young man who never leaves his room". Many media have been contributing later to reproduce that distorted image o…

Is it true to say a hikikomori is the product of economic surplus and found only in developed countries? Are hikikomoris just lazy because they have nothing to have to do to survive? Let's listen to a voice of hikikomori in Bangladesh, one…

If I want my neighbors to know "who I am", I must never tell them "who I am". Communication hell with my neighbors starting with a single cucumber I happeningly received!

I imagine other hikikomoris exist in other developing countries, but maybe they just don't go to social media to express themselves. So we are supposed to be not existing.

My family is not rich. Our house is pretty small. It is so difficult to live as a hikikomori in this kind of situation, because you hear all the people's gossiping about you, just around you....

In the small world of neighborhoods, everyone wants to know what is really going on behind the facade of each other. However, this interest is always superficial, and knowledge of the other family's reality does not mean that they will wor…

How does the hikikomori of a country that is not rich in economics think about support by the government? And what are his concerns about the future?

How a Western journalist looked at the nowadays "active" hikikomori? Written by a correspondant from France24; Constantin Simon. The encounter of different cultures.

The same thing is happening at school anywhere in this world. I always watch it in the news. A teacher in a position to stop bullying does nothing or cannot...

If you are a hikikomori today, is that the best way for you to be? From the experience of reclusing himself for 30 years, Japanese hikikomori Vosot Ikeida talks with Taiwanese filmmaker Lu Te-Hsing.

The people at the outside are arrogant. They consider themselves to be the best at everything without any actual proof. In such a country, if you fail at something, you will be despised as a loser forever. They will keep on saying horrible…

From virtual reality to universal basic income, is technology a new exit or poison for hikikomori? Speculating the near future, Taiwanese filmmaker talks about the influence of technology with Japanese hikikomori Vosot Ikeida.

After graduation of university, I won't have any social status. It means I must not live in this society. I have to die. If you try suicide, never fail. What is the perfect method? ...Then I found a manual which told "Reserve the expensive…

Are hikikomoris all lazy, not working, and playing games all day long? Seeing through the lens of social stigma, Taiwanese filmmaker talks about the stereotype of hikikomori with Japanese hikikomori Vosot Ikeida.

If you asked my dad today, ‘Is your son a hikikomori?’, he would certainly say no. Superficially speaking, he would be correct. I have technically ‘escaped’ the condition because I managed to go back to school and I do ‘participate’ in soc…

In 1985, when I started to be a hikikomori at 23 years old, Japan was about to begin to climb up the stairs for the Bubble Boom. But I have no memory that I benefited anything from this energetic era...

As some groups of the minority have been on the path of fighting discrimination and equal rights in the United States, will hikikomori eventually acquire an equal position socially with "ordinary people"? From the perspective of an Asian l…

January 2018 in Japan, a father strangled his 25-year-old son to death. "I was worried about his future". What is hidden behind a relationship between hikikomori and parents? Comparison with the cases in France and Japan.

This is how my hikikomori life started. Got a job. Unofficial contract with a good company. Looked like a smooth start of hopeful life. But my body became unable to move and ....

Taiwanese film maker Lu Te-Hsing read an article about hikikomori and got impressed deeply. He came over to Japan and talked with Vosot Ikeida to discuss what a hikikomori is.

For over 30 years, I have been living the various patterns of hikikomori and I am a hikikomori for now as well. "Hikikomori" is not the stereotyped image of a young boy shutting himself in his dark room, playing the online games all day an…

A human lives contradictions. A hikikomori may be the person who enlarged that part. A normal life, new house, family, job... conceiving a lot of ideas and dreams, she spends all her today again in her room.

She was a timid hikikomori who could never go out of her room, but she wanted to get out of being a hikikomori. Her choice was to try her chance by entering the army...

Neighborhood socializing does not exist. They do not come into my life. I do not get into their lives either. I could keep my hikikomori life in such a tranquil circumstance. People often talk about "the linking of local community" as if i…

Did she have nothing else to become a hikikomori while demonstrating dazzling talent in paintings and photographs? Terrienne, who grew up with being accused by her father and high school teacher, would eventually stop studying because of "…