{"id":308104,"date":"2025-11-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=308104"},"modified":"2025-11-21T05:47:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:47:51","slug":"dying-out-of-sight-hikikomori-in-an-aging-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/11\/dying-out-of-sight-hikikomori-in-an-aging-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Dying Out of Sight: Hikikomori in an Aging Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s estimated over a million Japanese live as &#8220;<em>hikikomori<\/em>,&#8221; recluses totally withdrawn from society. Some <em>hikikomori<\/em> may even go for decades without leaving their house. While in the past the phenomenon was most commonly associated with young men, recent data has revealed a much wider demographic of people whose confidence in themselves, and in society, has been shattered. As the parents or relatives on whom <em>hikikomoris<\/em> so often depend on become too old to care for them, many face a dire situation, left alone and unable to cope.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Click to Watch Documentary:<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/nhkworld\/en\/shows\/4001383\/\" >https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/nhkworld\/en\/shows\/4001383\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Broadcast on 16 Jan 2021 \/ Available until 15 Dec 2025 on NHK<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s estimated over a million Japanese live as &#8220;hikikomori,&#8221; recluses totally withdrawn from society. While in the past the phenomenon was most commonly associated with young men, recent data has revealed a much wider demographic of people whose confidence in themselves, and in society, has been shattered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[3722,179,423,1334],"class_list":["post-308104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-hikikomori","tag-japan","tag-personal","tag-social-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308105,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308104\/revisions\/308105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}