These Hikikomoris are web junkies, they spend most of their time surfing the internet. Some of them are gifted with great potentials as programmers and graphic artist. It is such as waste to see young teenagers shut themselves inside their room, much more talented teenagers. So what to do with these teenagers who have potentials? How do we prevent them from rotting away inside their rooms? The answer is Elearning. Since these students became Hikikomoris because they failed to find a university or college to get into, why not bring them to a different classroom? Bring these students to virtual classroom, to be precise. Online learning authors use many elearning tools that can cater to a wide range of students. Surely, this can be appealing to Japanese students.

80% of Hikikomori “Retarded or Schizophrenic”

The problem isn’t really with the diagnosis, but rather the selection. They’re only diagnosing people coming in voluntarily. This seems to me to suggest that these people on some level know they’re sick.

They haven’t investigated a representative sample, but rather hikkikomori who (or whose parents) believe they are sick. Big surprise that 80% of them actually ARE mentally unhealthy. Scientifically, this study is lousy.

Next we’ll investigate people coming into hospitals and conclude that 90% of the average Japanese population currently have diseases.

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