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Paul Keith:
The important point here is the all-consuming and addictive nature of the Internet. Online games are particularly addictive, and can easily interfere with day-to-day life; it has even given rise to the term "netoge haijin" (net game invalid).

It's not, however, that the Internet produces new pathologies. Rather, they condense and reveal the pathologies that already exist or magnify and accelerate their effects. In the case of the family in Toyokawa, the Internet probably served as the manifestation and accelerator of the family's underlying problems.

If this, indeed, is the case, there's no use lamenting the harmful effects of the Internet now. If intervention of the Internet allows for easier discovery of people's tendency towards violence and addiction, it would serve us well to make full use of such functions. It will allow us to confront families' shadows that have long been ignored. (By Tamaki Saito, psychiatrist)

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Note that I'm a non-Japanese Hikikomori so this relates more to my niche but I figure'd some of you may like to discuss another episode of "the effects of the Internet on society"




Internet can serve as a tool to track people's tendency toward violence


from: DuckDuckGo News Search on Hikikomori which links to Google News

Deozaan:
Maybe it's just culture differences, but the article is about a 30 year old man who lived with his parents, yet the whole time the article refers to him as their [his parents'] son, with examples of how the parents are treating him as a child (or at least a late teen).

If the family had consulted me, I would have first asked that they promptly commit to a policy of zero-tolerance against violence, and to set a maximum limit on their son's allowance. The family had entrusted the son with management of the parents' salaries ostensibly to teach him about autonomy. They also allowed the son free use of credit cards, which led to piling debts.

The most important thing in such a situation is to maintain a certain limit on the son's monthly allowance even if he shows strong resistance. Credit cards are out of the question. Stand firmly by these rules, and if violence erupts, respond by calling the police and escaping to a safe place.
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How on earth is a 30 year old man going to be "taught autonomy" by other people giving him their money and a monthly allowance? Kick him out of the house and stop treating him like a child if you want him to grow up.

The whole article seems a little bit "off" since it gives three examples in Japan where adults have murdered others, yet the article refers to these adults (except the first one) as children.

Like I said, maybe it's a cultural thing, but I can hardly take anything the article says as good, sound information when it constantly refers to adults around the age of 30 as children.

Paul Keith:
Yeah, it's a cultural thing but it's also interlaced with a personal article thing.

I don't know if the article is specifically relating to this but you can see in this link why it may not be a clear cut issue of someone being an adult or a child:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amae

Deozaan:
Sounds like the law of the harvest to me. That which you reap, you sow.

By "babying" their children well into adulthood, their children become very old, large babies.

Paul Keith:
It is for the most part but sometimes in a volatile economy as Japan or any poor country where it's much less practicable to live paying for your own needs (i.e. in the Philippines there are married couples that don't get married because of poverty but live in together) it's not as clear cut as it is.

Family culture is also linked to this. In America or Europe I think, it's much more common to leave your parents where as in Asian countries it's much more respectful and kind to live and provide for your family.

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