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[[File:Tatsuhiro Satou laying.png|thumb|434x434px|[[Welcome to the N.H.K.#Tatsuhiro Satou|Tatsuhiro Satou]] is a '''hikikomori''' himself and the protagonist of the Anime [[Welcome to the N.H.K.]] elaborating the phenomenon. ]] | [[File:Tatsuhiro Satou laying.png|thumb|434x434px|[[Welcome to the N.H.K.#Tatsuhiro Satou|Tatsuhiro Satou]] is a '''hikikomori''' himself and the protagonist of the Anime [[Welcome to the N.H.K.]] elaborating the phenomenon. ]] | ||
A '''hikikomori''' (Japanese for "pulling inward, being confined") is a person who refuses to leave their parent's house, doesn't work or pursue education and isolates themselves away from society and their family in a single room for a period of six months or more<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5775123/</ref>. A hikikomori's life often ends badly after their dependent parent or provider dies, so [[roping]] and/or murder after the death is relatively common. Roughly [[Demographics of inceldom|half a million young Japanese are extreme hermits]] depending on their parents. The English equivalent term is the [[Peter-pan generation]]. | A '''hikikomori''' (Japanese for "pulling inward, being confined") is a person who refuses to leave their parent's house, doesn't [[Wagecuck|work]] or pursue education and isolates themselves away from society and their family in a single room for a period of six months or more<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5775123/</ref>. A hikikomori's life often ends badly after their dependent parent or provider dies, so [[roping]] and/or murder after the death is relatively common. Roughly [[Demographics of inceldom|half a million young Japanese are extreme hermits]] depending on their parents. The English equivalent term is the [[Peter-pan generation]]. | ||
The term also refers to the general societal trend of infantilization in Japan. | The term also refers to the general societal trend of infantilization in Japan. | ||
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=== Sex ratio === | === Sex ratio === | ||
About 90% of hikikomoris are male.<ref>[https://www.hikikomoriitalia.it/p/characteristics-of-average-hikikomori.html#:~:text=According%20to%20Japanese%20data%20the%20hikikomori%20would%20be%2090%25%20male.&text=What%20causes%20this%20imbalance%3F,is%20culturally%20greater%20for%20men. https://www.hikikomoriitalia.it/p/characteristics-of-average-hikikomori.html#:~:text=According%20to%20Japanese%20data%20the%20hikikomori%20would%20be%2090%25%20male.&text=What%20causes%20this%20imbalance%3F,is%20culturally%20greater%20for%20men.]</ref> | About 90% of hikikomoris are [[Men|male]].<ref>[https://www.hikikomoriitalia.it/p/characteristics-of-average-hikikomori.html#:~:text=According%20to%20Japanese%20data%20the%20hikikomori%20would%20be%2090%25%20male.&text=What%20causes%20this%20imbalance%3F,is%20culturally%20greater%20for%20men. https://www.hikikomoriitalia.it/p/characteristics-of-average-hikikomori.html#:~:text=According%20to%20Japanese%20data%20the%20hikikomori%20would%20be%2090%25%20male.&text=What%20causes%20this%20imbalance%3F,is%20culturally%20greater%20for%20men.]</ref> | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||