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Rent-a-sister: Coaxing Japan’s young men out of their rooms
At least half a million young men in Japan are thought to have withdrawn from society, and refuse to leave their bedrooms. They’re known as hikikomori.
Their families often don’t know what to do, but one organisation is offering “sisters for hire” to help coax these young men out of their isolation.
Reported, directed and edited by Amelia Martyn-Hemphill for ĢƵ World Hacks.
Development producer-Ammar Ebrahim
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