Coronavirus could be creating a whole generation of recluses James Moore
They are called
hikikomori in Japan, a group of people who almost completely withdraw from society in favour of spending most of their lives in just one room.
They’re popularly seen as young video gamers who spend their lives glued to screens. They’ve occasionally turned up in those slightly patronising TV travel programmes whose premise appears to be, “Isn’t Japan charmingly weird?”
But this isn’t a purely Japanese phenomenon. They cropped up in the (excellent) South Korean Netflix zombie film
#Alive: its lead character is a shut-in, suggesting that the concept has been exported beyond Japan’s shores.
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