I saw a post here asking about this and it’s the first time I heard it
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Adding to other comments, Japan has a pretty unique culture of “family being a part of you”, and as such you are often judged by society on acts that your biological family members make as much as your own, and that’s a major enabler for the hikikomori phenomenon – while the main reason why people shut themselves in is unrealistic social pressures that current Japanese society puts on young adults, the “family culture” allows them to escape from those pressures by becoming shut-ins – having someone get thrown out of their house often makes everyone, like neighbours of that family or even coworkers, look at them down as in “their family stands out” or “their son is a looser and they don’t want to help him, so they are bad people”, so instead of throwing them out like what would probably happen in other places in the world a lot of parents just allow their kids to sit in their home without contributing because they are afraid of being ostracized from the local community.
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