Has confinement turned us all into hikikomori?

Wednesday, June 24, 2020 - 11:20 in Biology & Nature

After two months of lockdown, have we become like the hikikomori – the Japanese youngsters who choose to live in isolation, shunning the outside world? Natacha Vellut, a psychosociologist at the CERMES3 laboratory and co-author of a book on the subject, offers her analysis. Who are the hikikomori? Natacha Vellut: The hikikomori are young Japanese men […]

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