Some even refuse to step foot outside of their homes. These people are known to have Hikikomori syndrome. The cultural ...

He doesn’t have a job and stays at home all day. He has been what's called a “hikikomori" on and off for about 30 years, since dropping out of university in his early 20s. Japan's health ...

Reclusive young people like these residents' children are referred to as hikikomori, a term coined in Japan in the 1990s to describe severe social withdrawal among adolescents and young adults.

One in 76 people in Tokyo’s Edogawa Ward are “hikikomori,” or social recluses who do not go out for work or school and rarely interact with people outside their families, a survey showed.

In Japan, the problem is so acute that it has a name: Hikikomori. A hikikomori is defined as someone who withdraws from society, not attending school, work, or other activities, for more than six ...