From my technorati search on hikikomori and Japanese culture, I have come across Minus-one’s blog entry on the film “All About Lily Chou-Chou“. It reminded me that the film was a groundbreaking presentation of the hikikomori phenomenon in Japan, linking it to violence and bullying at school.
Although there is no other student in HKU interested in doing the topic, I found a Baptist University’s journalism students group blog from technorati where they had a couple of relevant entries on hikikomori in Hong Kong which is similar to my earlier post on 9 Feb 2007. Perhaps it is a chance for some cross-campus collaboration.
Also from technorati is an overview by Observing Japan on the social trend in Japan.
Then I made my way to flickr and see what I could find there. Interesting enough, I have found a discussion group on hikikomori and a person who identified him/herself as a hikikomori. Maybe I will follow on that and see if I can get some interesting conversations.
Also from flickr, there is one photo by photographer Stuart Isett that was particularly striking. The photo was from his “Japan Story” set which includes photographs taken in Japan over five years, mainly for The New York Times and Time Magazine.
Finally, I did a last search on google and found some very useful resources from a blog called Cultural Analysis 2005, the blog linked me to the following reference articles:
- Who are the hidden youth? – Wenweipo
- Hidden Youth – a global issue – Wenweipo
- Hikikomori – Wikipedia (Chinese) definition
- Clarifying the Hidden Youth Problem – Inmediahk
2 Comments
March 9, 2007 at 7:04 pm
you can read (or if you read japanese here). also you can watch anime about it – nhk ni youkoso. and you can find a bunch of them (hikis) on ２ちゃんねる
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March 10, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Thanks a lot. I am international journalism student in hkbu. Really interested in this topic. I am going to write a beat focusing on the hikikomori in Hong Kong. Wanna have some cases. dont know whether you can share some. my MSN hsiaoshan@hotmail.com