Shutting Out the Sun (review)

[wombat_socho]

This is an excellent book on the hikikomori, the Japanese who have withdrawn from society to such an extent that many of them no longer even leave their rooms except to excrete, and maybe bathe once a month.

Comments

[phoenixalpha]

as is the related horror that everyone seems to know there's something wrong, but nobody will talk about it for fear of being cast out and ostracized.

Sort of like Minnesota. Gee!

-/cynicism-

[wombat_socho]

Yeah, sort of. This came up while we were discussing Kyoko Mori's Polite Lies a couple of years back because it examines that precise parallel.