Tag: in english

  • Suicide after Ijime in France and Japan

    Boy on high school baseball club kills self after repeat scolding by coach OKAYAMA — A student assistant to a high school baseball team committed suicide here last year after the team coach verbally attacked him repeatedly, the Mainichi Shimbun has learned. According to the Okayama Prefectural Board of Education, the 16-year-old student at Okayama…

  • Children full of life, Japanese school

  • ” Pathology seen in French Hikikomori ”

    Seishin Shinkeigaku Zasshi. 2012;114(10):1173-9. [Article in Japanese] Furuhashi T, Figueiredo C, Pionnié-Dax N, Fansten M, Vellut N, Castel PH. Source Department of Psychopathology & Psychotherapy, Graduate School of Medicine/Center for Student Counseling, Nagoya University. Abstract Young people who meet the definition of “Hikikomori” have come to be seen in France since around 2008. However, simply “fitting the definition” does not necessarily…

  • Hikikomori in Nature (Journal of Science, 2004 & 2011)

    Two short quotations extracted from two articles published by the International Journal of Science ” Nature “. Made in Japan, Nature, 474, 541–542, (30 June 2011): ” Japan’s economy is stagnant, and even its high-tech manufacturing base is being edged out by countries such as China and South Korea. Its population is greying. Its youngsters…

  • Selected Bibliography about Hikikomori: articles in English (1986-2012)

    Selected Bibliography about Social Withdrawal (hikikomori) and School Absenteism (futôkô), from 1986 to 2012. All the references are academic articles, in English, except two in French and one in Italian. *** Borovoy, Amy. 2008. “Japan’s hidden youths: Mainstreaming the emotionally distressed in Japan.” Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry (32): 52–56. Chong, Stella Suk-ching, and Kar-Mon Chan.…

  • DSM5 has been finalized: no mention of hikikomori for now…

    Saturday, December 1, 2012: APA Board of Trustees Approves DSM-5   DSM5 will be published in May 2013. Here are the Key decisions made by the Board of Trustees •  Overall Substantive Changes o   Chapter order o   Removal of multiaxial system •  Section 2 Disorders o   Autism spectrum disorder o   Binge eating disorder o   Disruptive mood…

  • The missing million, BBC

      Here’s the Phil Rees report on BBC entitled ” The mystery of the missing million” http://vimeo.com/28627261 I already posted it previously with the spanish subtitles but now it’s the english version, thanks to Ueyama Kazuki.

  • Stay Home Sakoku

    Stay Home Sakoku, Melbourne, March 2012, by Eugenia Lim http://www.stayhomesakoku.com/

  • Hikikomori in Oxford Dictionnary

    noun (plural ) (in Japan) the abnormal avoidance of social contact, typically by adolescent males. a person who avoids social contact. Origin: Japanese, literally ‘staying indoors, (social) withdrawal’ Oxford Dictionnary    

  • A French report expected about hikikomori

    Documentaire en cours de David Beautru et Dorothee Lorang subventionne par la Fondation de France : http://www.machinemachine.tv/alecoute.html This project is from David Beautru and Dorothee Lorang. It is founded by Fondation de France