Hikikomori – a social trend or cultural trend?
The hikikomori phenomenon in Japan shows that young adults feel overwhelmed by modern commercial society, unable to fulfill their expected social roles as an adult. Is Hong Kong going to follow its path?
Hong Kong’s busy lives and compact urban design are in some way promoting seclusion.
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Hikikomori refuses to leave their parents’ house and isolate themselves away from society and family in a single room for a period for years, or in rare cases, decades.
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The younger generation in Hong Kong has been under Japanese influence for a long time.
Online chat rooms such as the 2CHANNERU is known to be a popular cyberspace for the Japanese hikikomori community.
