Youth Isolation and the Hikikomori Phenomenon

January 17, 2006
Host: Armand DiMele

A million Japanese youth have locked themselves in their bedrooms for years. Armand DiMele uses the hikikomori phenomenon as a lens for examining how overprotective parenting, competitive pressure, and cultural apathy are suppressing the natural rebelliousness of adolescence, with his assistant Stephanie Alomba joining the discussion.

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