{"id":21,"date":"2012-04-03T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/2012\/04\/03\/japanese-culture-provides-insights\/"},"modified":"2015-02-17T16:58:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T16:58:15","slug":"japanese-culture-provides-insights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/2012\/04\/03\/japanese-culture-provides-insights\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Culture provides insights"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Welcome-to-the-NHK\"<\/a>I’ve been in a fan of Japan and it’s culture for years. It’s absolutely fascinating to me. I’m, half way through watching the series ‘Welcome to the NHK’- an anime about the life of a ‘Hikikomori’ (social recluse) and ‘NEET’ (unemployed school leaver) called Tatsuhiro Sat\u014d. Not only is it a great stand-alone anime story and production, but I found myself totally able to relate and it made me realize I was also a Hikikomori. I isolate myself from society relying on income from parents or welfare, feeling unable to integrate into what society expects of me. It’s a term used widely in Japan, and is similar to AvPD (Avoidant Personality Disorder).<\/p>\n

Not something to be proud of, but knowing there are millions of people in the same situation provides a degree of comfort. It’s easy for others to call people like this lazy losers, but personally speaking I don’t choose to be like this. I don’t want to experience so much social anxiety, negative thinking and feel the need to have to withdraw and not be able to function in the ‘real world’.<\/p>\n

I also recognise the Japanese term ‘Parasite Single’- a single man (or woman) who’s still living with and becomes dependant on his parent’s beyond their late 20s in order to live a comfortable and less stressful life.<\/p>\n

I wonder how one can cure themselves of these conditions\/lifestyle habits?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been in a fan of Japan and it’s culture for years. It’s absolutely fascinating to me. I’m, half way through watching the series ‘Welcome to the NHK’- an anime about the life of a ‘Hikikomori’ (social recluse) and ‘NEET’ Continue reading Japanese Culture provides insights<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-understanding"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p68SmO-l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}