Japan's "hikikomori"

[Goo Punch 4275]

Modern day hermits who choose to live in isolation. 30,000 people die alone in Japan every year, so many that several businesses have sprouted up out of the need to clean apartments and houses where people have died and then gone unnoticed for long periods of time. Pretty crazy stuff.

 

[Brisketexan 105139]

Which brings to mind two things:

1) how many of them post on Surly?

2) is it hard to say "Surly" for a native Japanese speaker?

[Brock Sampson 289]

Sheesh....they lose one World War....

[Goo Punch 4275]

4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

2) is it hard to say "Surly" for a native Japanese speaker?

impossibre.

[Kel Varnsen 8460]

Add Masturbation and I'm pretty close to Hikikomori

[Deej 76790]

4 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

1) how many of them post on Surly?

 

Every single one on the Politics board.

[cabowabo 4484]

And I thought I was a loser.......

[Jimbaround 975]

5 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Which brings to mind two things:

1) how many of them post on Surly?

2) is it hard to say "Surly" for a native Japanese speaker?

Sur-uhry?

[El Diablo 4232]

55 minutes ago, Kel Varnsen said:

Add Masturbation and I'm pretty close to Hikikomori

Hihihihihihihihikomori.

[ztejas 43443]

5 hours ago, Goo Punch said:

Modern day hermits who choose to live in isolation. 30,000 people die alone in Japan every year, so many that several businesses have sprouted up out of the need to clean apartments and houses where people have died and then gone unnoticed for long periods of time. Pretty crazy stuff.

 

How did y'all get footage of my apartment?

[Trey3216 15346]

14 minutes ago, Jimbaround said:

Sur-uhry?

That’s 4am

[Wally Fairway 5549]

1 hour ago, cabowabo said:

And I thought I was a loser.......

don't sell yourself short, we think that you are

[XYZ 2154]

So these people who live in isolation, they don’t work?

[Neonmoon 38129]

I’m kind of jealous. 

[Doc Reeves 6434]

It’s a very interesting phenomenon. I’ve known people who lost family to it. 

There are many reasons but the way they explained it to me was that their family member developed a feeling of being unable to cope with rigorous demands of Japanese society and rather than shame themselves or their famthey stayed inside away from everyone. 

Its almost like that had pathologically low self-esteem

[HornsOverIthaca 2333]

2 hours ago, XYZ said:

So these people who live in isolation, they don’t work?

Yeah, how does that work?  

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4976]

Yeah, but when the zombie apocalypse comes will they even know?