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Mystery Of The Missing Million (Japan-Phil Rees)

 

 

Topics Japan, Phil Rees, Hikikomori, Social Withdrawal, Asia, NEET, Not in Education,Employment, or Training
 



 

https://vimeo.com/28627261
 

In Japan, a million young men have shut the door on real life.

Almost 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.

It 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.

It is called hikikomori by the Japanese meaning social withdrawal. Yet little is known about the problem and parents of sufferers prefer to hide their pain rather than seek help.

Phil Rees' film discovers the hidden pain that is scarring Japans youth. We meet the mother of a 17-year old boy who took over the kitchen of the family home. Her son has refused to leave the kitchen and has not spoken to outsiders for four years. Members of his own family rarely see him. He does not bath and lives surrounded by a mound of garbage, which spills from the kitchen into the hallway. The family have been forced to cook meals on a makeshift camping stove.

Another case revealed by the programme is that of a boy who has locked himself in his bedroom for four years. Throughout these years, his mother who sleeps in the next room has not seen her son. She only knows that he is alive because she sometimes hears the creaking of floorboards. Some can remain in their bedrooms for twenty years before the family seek outside help.

Peter Patterson wrote in the Daily Mail (21.10.02). "One of the true purposes of television - to tell us something new, extraordinary and amazing, with the added bonus that it might have implications for our lives - was more than fulfilled last night. Reporter Phil Rees, for Correspondent, had my eyes out on stalks with The Missing Million.

Filmed and Directed by Darren Conway. 
Assistant Producer: Mai Nishiyama

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Ed Sutton

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Very interesting video.

The only way I can see to reach these people is to have some kind of video game, internet page or video, or dvd.

I know of one person who is said to be hikikomori - a male in his late 30s.

These people who spend years solely in one room of a house are not a million tho, I don:t think.  Rather, there are many, probably over a million, who make effort to never interact with anyone.  It is seen as being a bother, and causing a bother for other people.

While hikikomori is very extreme, the trend towards withdrawing from an increasingly bizarre society is growing around the world, I think.  Only Jesus can fill their heart longing, but how to present Jesus to them?



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I can relate to this. One of my family members functions enough to keep a job. However, when they are at home they lock themselves in their bedroom. They withdraw into the world of television, the Internet and virtual reality. I have never seen inside, let alone been inside their bedroom.

It is very sad but I am not close enough to help them. I don't know if I could help them. If given the opportunity I would encourage them to be in a different context from time to time to try and break the habit of withdrawal.Only God knows the pain that these people must be experiencing.

I wonder what Bible promises could be claimed in prayer for these people.

I think webmaster's idea of reaching them through media is good. However, in many cases they need to be weaned off media. Once the light of Jesus' love begins to break into their dark worlds, they may be strong enough to deal with their anxiety, depression, obsession and addictions.



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I think it is an undiagnosed problem worldwide, part of the prophecy unfolding - men's hearts failing for fear of the things coming upon the Earth.  Each reacting to the ptsd style stress. 

Luke 21: 25  And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

26  Mens hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

 



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This mental condition is captivity upon the afflicted individual.  

Deuteronomy 30:

1 ¶  And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,

2  And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;

3  That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.

4  If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:

5  And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.

6  And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

The descriptions in Deuteronomy 28: seem to describe this affliction and withdrawal and sense of unworthiness and distance from others. 

Deuteronomy 28:

65  And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:

66  And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:

67  In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

 



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woops - anonymous is me  



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Quoting webmaster "The only way I can see to reach these people is to have some kind of video game, internet page or video, or dvd."

 

How about trying this : The things Christians and Buddhists and Shintoists and Muslims don't know about reality, and saga and history before Earth and after Earth. English & Japanese for language practice. Bi-modal web access. 

http://ellenwhiteaudio.org/patriarchs-and-prophets/     audio listening link

https://egwwritings.org/?ref=en_PP.15&para=84.4    pdf reading link

Pull up Japanese Language in this link https://egwwritings.org/?ref=en_PP.15&para=84.4 to put next to the english language links. 

http://ellenwhiteaudio.org/prophets-and-kings/ audio 

https://egwwritings.org/?ref=en_PK.7&para=88.8 pdf

http://ellenwhiteaudio.org/desire-of-ages/  audio

https://egwwritings.org/?ref=en_DA.15&para=130.4  pdf

http://ellenwhiteaudio.org/acts-of-the-apostles/  audio

https://egwwritings.org/?ref=en_AA.iv&para=127.5  pdf

http://ellenwhiteaudio.org/ministry-of-healing/   audio

https://egwwritings.org/?ref=en_MH.5&para=135.6  pdf

http://ellenwhiteaudio.org/christs-object-lessons/   audio

https://egwwritings.org/?ref=en_COL.4&para=15.5  pdf

http://ellenwhiteaudio.org/great-controversy/  audio 

https://egwwritings.org/?ref=en_GC.i&para=132.2  pdf

http://ellenwhiteaudio.org/steps-to-christ/  audio

https://egwwritings.org/?ref=en_SC.3&para=108.4  pdf

http://ellenwhiteaudio.org/story-of-jesus/  audio

https://egwwritings.org/?ref=en_SJ.12&para=144.2  pdf

http://ellenwhiteaudio.org/thoughts-from-the-mount-of-blessing/  audio 

https://egwwritings.org/?ref=en_MB.iii&para=150.4  pdf

Give them a contact link to you on the website.   Nothing to loose.  

Ed



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