Hikikomori Syndrome

[ibanezmonster]

Kind of related, and interesting:


Love in 2D

According to many who study the phenomenon, the rise of 2-D love can be attributed in part to the difficulty many young Japanese have in navigating modern romantic life. According to a government survey, more than a quarter of unmarried men and women between the ages of 30 and 34 are virgins; 50 percent of men and women in Japan said they were not "going out with anybody." One of the biggest best sellers in the country last year was "Health and Physical Education for Over Thirty," a six-chapter, manga-illustrated guidebook that holds the reader's hand from the first meeting to sex to marriage.

[MishaK]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex

[mahler10th]

According to a government survey, more than a quarter of unmarried men and women between the ages of 30 and 34 are virgins; 50 percent of men and women in Japan said they were not "going out with anybody."

Instead of moving to Denver to start a business, I have decided to move to Japan to get something else started.   

[ibanezmonster]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex

See, people here might think I'm unbelievable, but over there I'd be perfectly normal. At least they still have women over the age of 20 that don't have "unexpected" kids. 

[snyprrr]

Thought it said 'Kikkoman Syndrome'...




Yea, that's how I feel, but MY mother did kick me out, haha!!I was surely supposed to have a trust fund.

[Karl Henning]

Yea, that's how I feel, but MY mother did kick me out, haha!!I was surely supposed to have a trust fund.

She spent it on the John Rutter CDs . . . .

[ibanezmonster]

Yea, that's how I feel, but MY mother did kick me out, haha!!I was surely supposed to have a trust fund.

That's the American way, apparently... east Asian parents typically support their children as much as necessary and more often make sure to pay for their school. My friend who grew up in China and lives here found this strange and problematic, which it very much is...

[North Star]

That's the American way, apparently... east Asian parents typically support their children as much as necessary and more often make sure to pay for their school. My friend who grew up in China and lives here found this strange and problematic, which it very much is...

AFAIK, the East Asians also take care of their parents on a very different scale.

[ibanezmonster]

AFAIK, the East Asians also take care of their parents on a very different scale.

True.

[Octave]

From that GUARDIAN article linked above, quoted for topicality:

Around 70% of Japanese women leave their jobs after their first child. The World Economic Forum consistently ranks Japan as one of the world's worst nations for gender equality at work. Social attitudes don't help. Married working women are sometimes demonised as oniyome, or "devil wives". In a telling Japanese ballet production of Bizet's CARMEN a few years ago, Carmen was portrayed as a career woman who stole company secrets to get ahead and then framed her lowly security-guard lover José. Her end was not pretty.

[ibanezmonster]

From that GUARDIAN article linked above, quoted for topicality:

It's really unfortunate how it is for women.
I was thinking yesterday, though, that if it has always been like that, then the sole difference now is how it has changed for men since their 90's recession. If during the 80's, Japanese men worked super hard as the sole income provider for their family, and in the 90's the economy makes it impossible to be the sole income provider, then you just have no choice but to give up if you can't have two incomes.

I really do think this is something that Neon Genesis Evangelion is trying to portray symbolically when it came out in 1995- a struggle so impossible for the new generation (represented by Shinji) that they would rather be weak and give up the fight...