2006oct28. Hikikomori is a Japanese term referring to the country’s large number of adolescent voluntary shut-ins. Francesco Jodice has created a 22-minute quicktime film about this phenomenon which you can view here by clicking on “English,” then “works,” then down in the lower-right corner, “start.” Side note: from my dim recollection of the Japanese language, most of the time “u"s are whispered, to the point where it’s difficult for a non-speaker to hear them. Two male Japanese skateboarders drop the “u” in otaku but another male Japanese speaking in English hammers that ending “u.”
“SHY BOY!”
