By ATSUSHI TAKAHASHI/ Staff Writer
June 10, 2022 at 16:59 JST
An official in Tokyo’s Edogawa Ward visits residential areas in October 2021 for a survey about “hikikomori.” (Atsushi Takahashi)
One in 76 people in Tokyo’s Edogawa Ward are “hikikomori,” or social recluses who do not go out for work or school and rarely interact with people outside their families, a survey showed. [Read More]
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