{"id":54030,"date":"2023-04-03T16:25:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T07:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/03\/japan-says-15-million-people-living-as-recluses-after-covid"},"modified":"2023-04-03T16:25:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T07:25:49","slug":"japan-says-1-5m-people-are-living-as-recluses-after-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54030","title":{"rendered":"Japan says 1.5m people are living as recluses after Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifth of hikikomori cases among working-age people attributed to pressures unleashed by pandemic<\/p>\n<p>Almost 1.5 million people of working age in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> are living as social recluses, according to a government survey, with about a fifth of cases attributed to the pressures unleashed by the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Large numbers of <em>hikikomori<\/em> said they had begun retreating from mainstream society due to relationship issues and after losing or leaving their jobs, the cabinet office said. A significant proportion \u2013 20.6% \u2013 said their predicament had been triggered by changes in lifestyle imposed during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/03\/japan-says-15-million-people-living-as-recluses-after-covid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifth of hikikomori cases among working-age people attributed to pressures unleashed by pandemicAlmost 1.5 million people of working age in Japan are living as social recluses, according to a government survey, with about a fifth of cases attributed to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,221,914,88,419,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-europe","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan","category-russia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54031,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54030\/revisions\/54031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}