Nearly 1.5 million working-age people in Japan are social recluses, according to a new government survey, with a fifth citing the COVID-19 pandemic as the main reason for their withdrawal.
The poll is Japan's first official comprehensive probe into the prevalence of "hikikomori," or "shut-ins" — a phenomenon affecting a broad swathe of society, from teens to the elderly.
Hikikomori range from people who only go out to shop for groceries or to pursue hobbies, to more extreme cases who rarely leave their homes at all, the Cabinet Office survey says. The most common reason respondents gave for their social withdrawal was "quitting jobs" in the survey released Friday.
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