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Parents In South Korea Are Locking Themselves Inside ''Happiness Factory". Here's Why
These tiny rooms, compact as store cupboards, are connected to the outside world only through a feeding hole in the door.
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''I Was Lonely'': Japan Police Arrests Woman For Making Over 2,700 False Emergency Calls
Between August 2020 and May 2023, she repeatedly made calls asking the Matsudo fire department to dispatch ambulances, complaining of stomach ache, drug overdose, and aching legs among other symptoms.
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Hikikomori: 5 Points On Phenomenon That Has Left 1.5 Million Japanese In Isolation
A recent survey has revealed that 1.5 million working-age people in Japan are living as recluses. A fifth of them cited COVID-19 as the main reason for their withdrawal in the government survey, known as hikikomori.
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House Arrest Review: Ali Fazal, Shriya Pilgaonkar Fall in Love in Lacklustre Homebound Rom-Com
In our review of Netflix movie House Arrest, we look at how surface-level understanding of hikikomori meets a plot-driven film and in turn, produces a lacklustre homebound rom-com starring Ali Fazal and Shriya Pilgaonkar.
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Parents In South Korea Are Locking Themselves Inside ''Happiness Factory". Here's Why
These tiny rooms, compact as store cupboards, are connected to the outside world only through a feeding hole in the door.
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''I Was Lonely'': Japan Police Arrests Woman For Making Over 2,700 False Emergency Calls
Between August 2020 and May 2023, she repeatedly made calls asking the Matsudo fire department to dispatch ambulances, complaining of stomach ache, drug overdose, and aching legs among other symptoms.
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Hikikomori: 5 Points On Phenomenon That Has Left 1.5 Million Japanese In Isolation
A recent survey has revealed that 1.5 million working-age people in Japan are living as recluses. A fifth of them cited COVID-19 as the main reason for their withdrawal in the government survey, known as hikikomori.
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House Arrest Review: Ali Fazal, Shriya Pilgaonkar Fall in Love in Lacklustre Homebound Rom-Com
In our review of Netflix movie House Arrest, we look at how surface-level understanding of hikikomori meets a plot-driven film and in turn, produces a lacklustre homebound rom-com starring Ali Fazal and Shriya Pilgaonkar.
