Resurrection!

This blog was dead, but I am bringing it back to life. I didnt want to do this initially, because i thought that it was stupid, considering how many "living abroad/travel" type blogs there are out there, but hey.

having spent almost all day in my room, perhaps it is fitting to start with an article about hikikomori, a japanese word for withdrawl, but also to describe a social disorder that afflicts somewhere around 1 million Japanese people, according to those who have studied it.
Hikikomori are people who, for a variety of reasons, choose to stay in their rooms for years at a time. While witnessed in other, mostly Asian countries, it is something that is found predominantly in Japan.

An interesting, though not always visually coherent, documentary on the subject:

http://www.kalkarman.com/documentary/hikikomori.html

here is also a good nytimes article about it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/magazine/15japanese.html?_r=1&oref=slogin