If he was getting a good education, the little chinkie should be at a tuition centre in the evening after school, not a a night club.
Yes and become Hikikomori, sexless, useless, jiak liao bee.
Japan’s “Hikikomori” Population Could Top 10 Million
Society Health Sep 17, 2019
The government estimates that Japan has 1.15 million
hikikomori, people who have withdrawn from society. But Saitō Tamaki, a leading expert on this matter, suggests that the figure is larger and may eventually rise to above 10 million. He shares his thoughts about causes of the problem and ways of dealing with these shut-ins.
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On July 29, 2019, psychiatrist Saitō Tamaki gave a press briefing at the Foreign Press Center Japan on the subject of
hikikomori, the phenomenon of withdrawal from society. (The Japanese term also refers to the people who exhibit the phenomenon.) Saitō, a professor at Tsukuba University, has been studying
hikikomori for decades, and it was he who introduced the term and who brought the subject to wide public attention in a 1998 book.
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The government has
estimated Japan’s population of
hikikomori aged 15–64 to be 1.15 million. But Saitō believes the authorities may be undercounting the shut-ins; he suggested that the figure could be more like 2 million. And unlike homeless people, for example, these social recluses generally live with their parents and do not have to worry about providing themselves with food or shelter. Under these circumstances, many of them can be expected to continue their secluded lives as they get older. With this in mind, Saitō believes the
hikikomori population could eventually top 10 million.
Over the years many have seen social withdrawal as a cause of criminal behavior, connecting the two in cases like the Niigata kidnapping and confinement of a young girl from 1990 to 2000 and the Kawasaki mass-stabbing incident in May 2019. But Saitō rejected this view, declaring there is extremely little correlation between withdrawal and crime. “
Hikikomori are defined as having spent six months or more not participating in society—without mental illness being the main cause,” he explained. In many of the cases where the media have referred to perpetrators as
hikikomori, they were found to have a mental disorder and thus did not fit the definition. Saitō emphasized that the word
hikikomori describes a state rather than an illness, and that the people in this state perform very little criminal activity.
Saitō sees
hikikomori as decent people who happen to find themselves in a difficult situation. Japanese society has many problems, such as
the lack of regular jobs, the steady rise in the average age of the population, and the trouble people have getting back into the labor force after having been forced to quit work to look after aged parents. One has to say it is not an easy society to live in.
“There’s still
a lack of respect for individuals,” Saitō commented. “People who aren’t useful to society or their family are seen as having no value. When
hikikomori hear the government’s rhetoric about promoting ‘the dynamic engagement of all citizens,’ they’re liable to take it to mean that their inability to be ‘dynamically engaged’ makes them worthless. This drives them into a mental corner.”