Covid Has Turned Us All Into Hikikomoris. Here’s What We Can Do.
In January of 2020, if anyone would tell me that I would have to go on this self-imposed isolation for months on end, I would have laughed.
As it turns out, not only did we go on isolation, we have stayed and managed to survive it. But imagine this type of a phenomenon that has been prevalent since the late 1990’s in Japan where people were retreating inwards and hiding out in their homes for decades on end?
There is word for that in Japan, and it is called Hikikomori.
Hikikomoris are people who are socially withdrawn often by their own volition.
They are currently 1.5 million Hikikomoris in…
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