"First published in Japan in 1998 by PHP Institute, Inc. [as Shakaiteki hikikomori: owaranai shishunki]."
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"First published in Japan in 1998 by PHP Institute, Inc. [as Shakaiteki hikikomori: owaranai shishunki]."
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This is the first English translation of a controversial Japanese best seller that made the public aware of the social problem of hikikomori, or "withdrawal"-a phenomenon estimated by the author to involve as many as one million Japanese adolescents and young adults who have withdrawn from society, retreating to their rooms for months or years and severing almost all ties to the outside world.
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Sait Tamaki is a practicing psychiatrist and director of medical services at Sfkai Sasaki Hospital in Funabashi, Japan. He is the author of more than two dozen books, including Beautiful Fighting Girl (Minnesota, 2011).
This is the first English translation of a controversial Japanese best seller that made the public aware of the social problem of hikikomori, or "withdrawal"--a phenomenon estimated by the author to involve as many as one million Japanese adolescents and young adults who have withdrawn from society, retreating to their rooms for months or years and severing almost all ties to the outside world.
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