Can Culture Create Mental Disease? 

The Rise of “Hikikomori” in the wake of economic downturn in Japan 

  mind the science gap

Some sociologists have suggested that these individuals 
are not rebels in the sense that they are rejecting 
one ideology and accepting another, but rather 
individuals defining themselves by rejecting the core values
 of the Japanese work and social ethic itself. 

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