Mystery of the Missing Million from mother bath son Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 28 min 18 sec
✓ Published: 06-Sep-2011

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In Japan, a million young men have shut the door on real life.nnAlmost one man in ten in his late teens and early twenties is refusing to leave his home – many do not leave their bedrooms for years on end.nnIt is a lost generation. Many millions of families are devastated. But they mostly suffer in silence, unable to understand the plight of their children. The first western psychologist to study the problem describes the condition as “an epidemic” sweeping Japan.nnIt is called hikikomori