Hikikomori: "Today video phones are very popular so we don't have to meet"

"Today video phones are very popular so we don't have to meet."

A quote from a post on we-make-money-not-art.com, about a video documenting Japan's Hikikomori.

Hikikomor is a Japanese term to refer to the phenomenon of reclusive adolescents and young adults who have chosen to withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement due to various personal and social factors in their lives.

One psychologist has described the condition as an "epidemic", which now claims more than a million sufferers in their late teens and twenties, reports the BBC.

emily | 9:41 AM | How people and businesses are using videophones |
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