Companions in Solitude: Reclusion and Communion in Chinese Art

The primary mission of the newspaper, Hikikomori Shimbun, is to offer an alternative, insider’s perspective to sensationalized and sometimes inaccurate reporting.Fed up with sensationalized portrayals, the country's hikikomori are reclaiming their narrative.

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Japan's Most Interesting Newspaper Is for Recluses, by Recluses
Asia Society: ‘The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in 17th-Cent ury China’ at Asia Society and Museum
A Recluse? Well, Not to His Neighbors
By KATIE ZEZIMA
To the residents of Cornish, N.H., J. D. Salinger was not a recluse. He was a townsperson — just a guy called Jerry.

The captain asked Ms. Fleytas to make an emergency announcement. She looked at her boss, Mr. Keplinger. “She said she couldn’t do it,” he said. “She looked pretty nervous.”
Although Ms. Fleytas disputes Mr. Keplinger’s account, it was Mr. Keplinger who got on the intercom.
“Fire, fire, fire,” he called out.

People are quietly dying unnoticed, without asking for help.
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Dying Out of Sight: Hikikomori in an Aging Japan
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蟄居（ zhé jū ）（日语：引きこもり/引き籠もり hikikomori）意思與隱居相近，解释为长期隐居在某个地方，不出头露面。蛰居在日本是一種严重的社會現象，絕大多數 ...
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Hikikomori - Wikipedia
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Hikikomori also known as acute social withdrawal, is total withdrawal from society and seeking extreme degrees of social isolation and confinement.

intercom
(ĭn'tər-kŏm') pronunciation

n.
An electronic intercommunication system, as between two rooms.

[Short for INTERCOMMUNICATION.]

towns·man (tounz'mən) pronunciation

recluse

Pronunciation: /rɪˈkluːs/

Definition of recluse

a person who lives a solitary life and tends to avoid other people: she has turned into a virtual recluse he’s a bit of a recluse

archaic

Derivatives

noun