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Rent-a-sister:
Coaxing Japan’s hikikomori men out of their
bedrooms
Video BBC News
At least half a million young men in Japan
are thought to have withdrawn from society,
and refuse to leave their bedrooms.
They’re known as hikikomori.
Their families often don’t know what to do,
but one organisation is offering ‘sisters for hire’
to help coax these young men out of their isolation.
A film by Amelia Martyn-Hemphill for BBC World Hacks
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9IRmUEsz6g
Hikikomori
UK / USA
https://www.bbc.com/future/
article/20190129-the-plight-of-japans-modern-hermits - 29th January 2019
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23182523 - 5 July 2013
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jul/17/
growing-band-young-people-reclusive-life
https://www.npr.org/2006/11/24/
6535284/retreating-youth-become-japans-lost-generation
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/
magazine/shutting-themselves-in.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/17/
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