A non-profit called New Start takes groups of people of this condition on a two-month-long "slow walk" of the 88-Temple Pilgrimage to help them overcome it.
In a 2006 book, journalist Michael Zielinziger likened these people to a "lost generation" created in part by an economic bust in the 1980s. A non-profit called New Start takes groups of people of this condition on a two-month-long "slow walk" of the 88-Temple Pilgrimage to help them overcome it. This demographic is sometimes described as at the most extreme end of a spectrum that also includes "freeters" and NEETs. Some families hire "rental sisters" to handle people of this sort, which a 2010 study by Yamada claimed to result from the same cultural forces as (*) "parasite singles". Psychiatrist Tamaki Saito studies this demographic, whose behavior often results from failure to make it as a salaryman. The book Shutting Out the Sun is about, for 10 points, what largely-male set of almost a million adults who hide away in their rooms for months at a time in contemporary Japan?
In a 2006 book, journalist Michael Zielinziger likened these people to a "lost generation" created in part by an economic bust in the 1980s.
hikikomori [prompt on descriptive answers such as recluses, hermits, shut-ins, or adults living at home with their parents; prompt on men or Japanese men if that's really necessary] 