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NHK WORLD-JAPAN Jul 8, 2022 [Skip Intro] 00:04 Watch more documentaries on NHK WORLD-JAPAN: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/category/15/?cid=wohk-yt-2207-dyingoutofsight01-hp More quality content available on NHK WORLD-JAPAN: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/?cid=wohk-yt-2207-dyingoutofsight01-hp Over a million Japanese are estimated to be living as “hikkikomori,” socially withdrawn recluses shut off from the outside world. Previously thought to be a problem of young men, new research implies that the situation could be far more serious than imagined. Age of Social Withdrawal (26:00) https://rumble.com/v2lt1j0-age-of-social-withdrawal.html Dying Out of Sight: Hikikomori (49:05) https://rumble.com/v2lsx9u-dying-out-of-sight-hikikomori.html Japan's Taboo Hikikomori (17:35) https://rumble.com/v3fmrze-japans-taboo-hikikomori.html Living Lonely and Loveless in Japan (29:46) https://rumble.com/v2lsriq-living-lonely-and-loveless-in-japan.html Hermit/Recluse YouTube Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx2BamAwbS6x15crCU-jVPlF8mgHz-fIs

Living Lonely and Loveless in Japan | Foreign Correspondent ABC NEWS In-depth Premiered Feb 17, 2022 JAPAN Around the world more and more people are opting for the single life but in Japan, loneliness has become an epidemic. Subscribe: https://ab.co/3yqPOZ5 Marriage and childbirth rates are falling, as more and more young Japanese choose to stay single and childless. Relationships are too difficult, they say. In the country’s last Fertility Survey, figures showed that a quarter of women in their 30s were single, and half of those weren’t interested in having a relationship. Many Japanese adults aren’t even having sex. It’s estimated around 10% of people in their 30s are still virgins. By 2040, it’s estimated nearly half of Japan’s population will be single. Correspondent Jake Sturmer has reported from the ABC’s Tokyo bureau for 4 years and nothing has confounded him more than this social crisis. As he prepares to return to Australia, Jake sets out on a final journey to discover the forces driving this ‘Solo Society’. He meets 29-year-old Sayaka, who works in the fashion industry. Sayaka is happily single, and not interested in getting married. “I’m under a lot of (social) pressure but I don’t mind,” she says. “There's nothing I can’t do without a man at the moment.” Instead, the objects of her affection are her dogs - Kogemaru, Unimaru, Rinmaru and Riko - whom she loves to spoil. Naoya, a 32-year-old creative director for an advertising company, isn’t in a rush to get married either. He often feels lonely but hanging out with friends cheers him up. “It’s fun drinking with my friends like this and I’m able to fill in the loneliness,” Naoya tells Jake in a cosy bar in downtown Tokyo. Jake also explores a darker side of Japanese society, meeting a man who has opted out in an extreme way, hiding in his bedroom and avoiding society altogether. He’s what’s called a hikikomori, someone who withdrawn socially. In Japan there are more than a million hikikomori. Jake meets the mother of one who’s become an activist, campaigning for Japanese society to be more tolerant of those who don’t fit the mould. “People believe they need to change the people who’ve withdrawn but I think it’s exactly the opposite. I think the society should change,” she says. Jake spends time with Masatomi, a cleaner whose job is to clear out the homes of those who die alone. Each year, tens of thousands of Japanese end their lives alone, their bodies often found after neighbours detect an odour. Masatomi is calling for Japanese people to sit up and take notice. “It’s something that could happen to anybody including myself. I strongly feel that we need to have connections with other people. I feel outrage, why don’t they see what’s going on?" About Foreign Correspondent: Foreign Correspondent is the prime-time international public affairs program on Australia's national broadcaster, ABC-TV. We produce half-hour duration in-depth reports for broadcast across the ABC's television channels and digital platforms. Since 1992, our teams have journeyed to more than 170 countries to report on war, natural calamity and social and political upheaval – through the eyes of the people at the heart of it all. Contributions may be removed if they violate ABC’s Online Terms of Use http://www.abc.net.au/conditions.htm (Section 3). This is an official Australian Broadcasting Corporation YouTube channel ABC News In-depth takes you deeper on the big stories, with long-form journalism from Four Corners, Foreign Correspondent, Australian Story, Planet America and more, and explainers from ABC News Video Lab. Watch more ABC News content ad-free on iview: https://ab.co/2OB7Mk1 For more from ABC News, click here: https://ab.co/2kxYCZY Get breaking news and livestreams from our ABC News channel: / newsonabc Like ABC News on Facebook: http://facebook.com/abcnews.au Follow ABC News on Instagram: http://instagram.com/abcnews_au Follow ABC News on Twitter: http://twitter.com/abcnews Note: In most cases, our captions are auto-generated. #ABCNewsIndepth #ABCNewsAustralia Age of Social Withdrawal (26:00) https://rumble.com/v2lt1j0-age-of-social-withdrawal.html Dying Out of Sight: Hikikomori (49:05) https://rumble.com/v2lsx9u-dying-out-of-sight-hikikomori.html Japan's Taboo Hikikomori (17:35) https://rumble.com/v3fmrze-japans-taboo-hikikomori.html Living Lonely and Loveless in Japan (29:46) https://rumble.com/v2lsriq-living-lonely-and-loveless-in-japan.html Hermit/Recluse YouTube Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx2BamAwbS6x15crCU-jVPlF8mgHz-fIs

Japan: The Age Of Social Withdrawal | 101 East Al Jazeera English Mar 20, 2020 Kenji Yamase spends his days in his bedroom. The 54-year-old has been a "hikikomori" all of his adult life. The term describes Japanese who rarely interact with society beyond their family. "It's a sense or feeling that you shouldn't be here. Even if you are here, you feel like you aren't yourself," Kenji says. Japan is home to more than one million hikikomori, according to recent government surveys. Many of them are over the age of 40 and rely heavily on their elderly parents. Kenji lives with his 88-year-old mother. "Year by year, I can feel that she's deteriorating ... I worry about her, but I don't know what to do, so I feel very bad," he says. "I feel sad thinking about when she's gone." An increasing number of school students are also choosing to shun the outside world. Known as "futoko", these children blame a rigid education system, bullying and strict parenting for their social withdrawal. It has led to NGOs setting up education centres across the country as an alternative to Japan's strict schools. Umi Maekita, who runs Nemonet Free School, says most children who attend these centres eventually return to the mainstream education system. He says early intervention can prevent a lifetime of isolation. "Telling them to go back to work or go back to school straight away is not the way," he says. 101 East meets the young and old who feel lost in Japan. - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ Age of Social Withdrawal (26:00) https://rumble.com/v2lt1j0-age-of-social-withdrawal.html Dying Out of Sight: Hikikomori (49:05) https://rumble.com/v2lsx9u-dying-out-of-sight-hikikomori.html Japan's Taboo Hikikomori (17:35) https://rumble.com/v3fmrze-japans-taboo-hikikomori.html Living Lonely and Loveless in Japan (29:46) https://rumble.com/v2lsriq-living-lonely-and-loveless-in-japan.html Hermit/Recluse YouTube Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx2BamAwbS6x15crCU-jVPlF8mgHz-fIs

KTVA News Dec 21, 2019 By Rhonda McBride, KTVA. I remember the first time I heard Dick Proenneke’s name, I said, “Dick, what?” The name Proenneke, pronounced “preh’-neck-key,” sounded so odd. My colleague Will Mader, our main Frontiers photojournalist, brought it up. He’s a big fan of Proenneke’s. Will had devoured Proenneke’s journals and watched all his films. He had even made the pilgrimage to Dick’s cabin at Lake Clark National Park and Wilderness Preserve and talked with me about doing a show on efforts to preserve his log house. Why? Alaska has lots of log cabins. Why this one? Will convinced me this was an important story to tell. Since Proenneke’s death in 2003, his fame has continued to grow. But curiously, he’s better known outside of our state than he is here, because his film, Alone is the Wilderness, is often featured in public broadcasting fundraisers across the country. The more I learned, the more intrigued I became. Proenneke, at the age of 52, went to Twin Lakes to reinvent himself, after a welding accident almost blinded him. His mission: to find out if he had what it took to survive in the wilderness. He started by cutting down logs and used them to build a cabin, fashioned completely with hand tools – some that he made himself. Proenneke went on to live in his homemade house for more than 30 years -- and through his journals and films became a famous wilderness advocate. Will and I began our journey towards this week’s show more than two years ago, with a trip to Twin Lakes, where we had a chance to meet people who knew Dick Proenneke. It turned out to be what I call a Chinese box story, when you open one box, only to find another and another. There were plenty of surprises in those boxes – and we were left with an interesting collection. Who was the real Dick Proenneke? First and foremost, he aimed to leave his mark by treading lightly on the land, to have as little impact as possible on the wilderness he called home. Although the country was remote, he discovered how fragile it was. He often spent his days picking up trash that hunters and pilots left behind. Another facet of Dick Proenneke: he was a recycler extraordinaire, before the term was even widely used. He would take discarded gas cans and turn them into cookware. He would salvage parts from airplane wrecks and fashion tools. He also made very user-friendly furniture, shaped to the curves of the body. Dick Proenneke, we discovered, was many things to many people. That’s why we decided to create a special one-hour version of the show. Here are some of the highlights: • Dick Proenneke's personal frontier: The story of how Dick Proenneke became a wilderness icon. • Handmade home: Efforts to restore Dick Proenneke’s cabin at Twin Lakes. • Keepers of the legacy, the journals: John Branson, a National Park Service historian based at Lake Clark talks about editing more than 90 pounds of Proenneke notebooks. • Keepers of the legacy, the archive: Katie Myers, a curator for the National Park Service shows us the Dick Proenneke collection at the NPS archives in downtown Anchorage. • Friends and neighbors: With help from the NPS and the Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association, a look at friendships Dick had with his nearest neighbors -- Jay and Bella Hammond and the Alsworth Family. • Wilderness princess: Former NPS ranger Patty Brown talks about her friendship with Dick Proenneke, who made her feel like "royalty." How she came to hop off a float plane at Twin Lakes, wearing a black evening gown. • Friends of Dick Proenneke and Lake Clark National Park: Fred Hirschmann shares his memories of Dick and talks about the need to protect and preserve the Proenneke homestead. We have many, many people to thank for their help: John Branson and Katie Myers at the National Park Service, the Alsworth's Lake Clark Air, the Hammond family, the Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association, Fred Hirschmann and the Friends of Dick Proenneke and Lake Clark National Park, and Bob Swerer Productions. Perhaps the biggest joy of a project like this is all the friends you meet. We hope this show raises awareness about a great Alaskan, who is not well known in his own state. So here’s our attempt to change that. Key moments 1:39 Dick Proenneke's Personal Frontier PHOTOJOURNALIST: WILL MADER 3:38 Shawn Avra MICHIGAN RESIDENT 3:51 Alex Avra INSPIRED BY DICK PROENNEKE 5:51 Dick Proenneke 1976 INTERVIEW. ONE MAN'S ALASKA 8:24 A Wilderness Legacy NEXT 9:08 Monroe Robinson NATIONAL PARK SERVICE VOLUNTEER 15:43 A Labor of Love NEXT 23:53 Through the Eyes of Friends NEXT 26:02 Glen Alsworth, Jr. FAMILY FRIEND AND PILOT 27:43 Dick Proenneke INTERVIEWED FOR JAY HAMMOND'S ALASKA 28:35 Bella Hammond FORMER ALASKA FIRST LADY 31:56 The Little Black Dress 34:32 Patty Brown FRIEND OF DICK PROENNEKE 41:09 Fred Hirschmann FRIEND OF DICK PROENNEKE Agafia Hermit Surviving (52:06) https://rumble.com/v1208hi-agafia.-hermit-surviving-in-russian-wilderness-for-70-years.html AGAFIA'S TAIGA LIFE (35:44) https://rumble.com/v2i44h6-agafias-taiga-life.html Frontiers 194 Dick Proenneke (48:31) https://rumble.com/v2cb4ug-frontiers-194-dick-proenneke.html Hermit/Recluse YouTube Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx2BamAwbS6x15crCU-jVPlF8mgHz-fIs

Japan's taboo: Hikikomori modern-day hermits | Reporters • FRANCE 24 English FRANCE 24 English Jan 18, 2019 Subscribe to France 24 now: http://f24.my/youtubeEN FRANCE 24 live news stream: all the latest news 24/7 http://f24.my/YTliveEN In Japan, half a million people live isolated in their bedrooms, unable to face the outside world. These modern-day hermits are known as the hikikomori. Since April 2018, the Japanese government has been conducting a nationwide study in a bid to fully understand this strange phenomenon. Once limited to young people, it now affects the whole of Japanese society. Our correspondent reports. Visit our website: http://www.france24.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel: http://f24.my/youtubeEN Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FRANCE24.English Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/France24_en Age of Social Withdrawal (26:00) https://rumble.com/v2lt1j0-age-of-social-withdrawal.html Dying Out of Sight (49:05) https://rumble.com/v2lsx9u-dying-out-of-sight-hikikomori.html Japan's taboo Hikikomori (17:35) https://rumble.com/v3fmrze-japans-taboo-hikikomori.html Living Lonely Loveless Japan (29:46) https://rumble.com/v2lsriq-living-lonely-and-loveless-in-japan.html Hermit/Recluse YouTube Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx2BamAwbS6x15crCU-jVPlF8mgHz-fIs

Agafia. Hermit Surviving in Russian Wilderness for 70 years Sep 23, 2014 RT Documentary More films about religion: https://rtd.rt.com/tags/religion/ Soon after this film aired, Agafia found a helper who has now been living with her for more than a year. Georgy Danilov, 53, is from Orenburg. He is an Old Believer. It was Agafia’s spiritual father who found and blessed her helper. Georgy has been doing the toughest chores for almost two years: he chops firewood, brings water from the river, and digs the vegetable garden. Agafia doesn’t always see eye to eye with Georgy. She views him as a novice and demands his full obedience and submission, which doesn’t always sit well with Georgy. Despite their differences, they try to find common ground. Apart from the main helper, volunteers and students from various Russian cities also come to Agafia’s hut to help her out. In the mid-17th century, the leader of Russia’s Orthodox Church, Patriarch Nikon, introduced radical reforms in Russia. Many couldn’t accept the changes and became known as “Old Believers”. To avoid religious persecution first from the Orthodox Church and then from the Soviets, families fled to some of the most remote corners of the world. In 1978, one such family was discovered by a group of geologists in the remote Russian Republic of Khakassia, Siberia. The Lykovs looked as if they belonged to a previous century: they dressed in homespun clothes and used primitive instruments in their everyday life. They were completely self-sufficient and still highly religious. Today, Agafia, 70, is the last surviving member of this family. When RT Doc filmmakers met her, she was in desperate need of a helper. They encourage her to write a letter to Old Believers everywhere in an attempt to find one. This letter, written in Old Slavonic language, is available on our site. The film crew also interviews Erofey Sedov, a former drilling geologist. He was one of those who discovered the Lykovs and told the world about them. He got to know them well and is now ready to share information that will make us see the familiar story of this family of hermits in a different light. But is any of it true? SUBSCRIBE TO RTD Channel to get documentaries firsthand! http://bit.ly/1MgFbVy FOLLOW US RTD WEBSITE: https://RTD.rt.com/ RTD ON TWITTER: http://twitter.com/RT_DOC RTD ON FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/RTDocumentary RTD ON DAILYMOTION http://www.dailymotion.com/rt_doc RTD ON INSTAGRAM http://instagram.com/rt_documentary/ RTD LIVE https://rtd.rt.com/on-air/ Agafia Hermit Surviving Wilderness (52:06) https://rumble.com/v1208hi-agafia.-hermit-surviving-in-russian-wilderness-for-70-years.html AGAFIA'S TAIGA LIFE (35:44) https://rumble.com/v2i44h6-agafias-taiga-life.html Frontiers 194 Dick Proenneke (48:31) https://rumble.com/v2cb4ug-frontiers-194-dick-proenneke.html Hermit/Recluse YouTube Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx2BamAwbS6x15crCU-jVPlF8mgHz-fIs

Surviving in the Siberian Wilderness for 70 Years (Full Length) FAR OUT: AGAFIA'S TAIGA LIFE VICE Apr 9, 2013 In 1936, a family of Russian Old Believers journeyed deep into Siberia's vast taiga to escape persecution and protect their way of life. The Lykovs eventually settled in the Sayan Mountains, 160 miles from any other sign of civilization. In 1944, Agafia Lykov was born into this wilderness. Today, she is the last surviving Lykov, remaining steadfast in her seclusion. In this episode of Far Out, the VICE crew travels to Agafia to learn about her taiga lifestyle and the encroaching influence of the outside world. Check out the Best of VICE here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Best-Of Subscribe to VICE here! http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/VICE-Videos Videos, daily editorial and more: http://vice.com Like VICE on Facebook: http://fb.com/vice Follow VICE on Twitter: http://twitter.com/vice Read our tumblr: http://vicemag.tumblr.com Agafia Hermit Surviving Wilderness (52:06) https://rumble.com/v1208hi-agafia.-hermit-surviving-in-russian-wilderness-for-70-years.html AGAFIA'S TAIGA LIFE (35:44) https://rumble.com/v2i44h6-agafias-taiga-life.html Frontiers 194 Dick Proenneke (48:31) https://rumble.com/v2cb4ug-frontiers-194-dick-proenneke.html Hermit/Recluse YouTube Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx2BamAwbS6x15crCU-jVPlF8mgHz-fIs