Several years ago, a vogue of interest in shut-ins, or hikikomori, saw researchers from France touring Japan and meeting reclusive youths. Such was the prevalence of the disorder, said psychologist Nicolas Tajan, that ¡°if you ask people in Japan about hikikomori, almost everyone will say, ¡®I know somebody like that.¡¯ But there is no such word in France.¡±
I Called Him Necktie, by Milena Michiko Flasar
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