Hikikomori: The Postmodern Hermits of JapanNothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die -Matsuo Bashō After years of self-imposed isolation, literally having never left his parents’ house, a seventeen-year-old kid in Japan finally walked outside. He was known to the legendary Japanese Internet forum 2channel as Neomugicha. A Dadaist short circuit in the name, perhaps since the name literally means Neo-BarleyTea. Neomugicha
