

A NEET and possible hikikomori who chased his mother out of a second floor window with a knife after she told him to “get a job or get out” holed himself up in his home, prompting police to storm the building. The entire event was caught on video.
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A man living as a hikikomori hermit for the past 30 years has been arrested after it transpired he had hid his mother’s corpse for 3 years so he could use her pension to steal $80,000 to fund his plamo hobby.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Aug 25, 2010 02:05 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Courts, Hawaii, Hikikomori, Internet, Korea, Law, Litigation, MMORPG, Otaku, USA

The makers of popular MMORPG Lineage II are facing a lawsuit accusing them of acting negligently by failing to warn a man that he could become addicted to the game, which he blames for making him “unable to function independently” and costing him 20,000 hours of his life.
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Coming immediately after the case of a 117-year-old man who turned out to be a mummy, the 113-year-old woman supposed to be the oldest person in Tokyo has “disappeared,” with family claiming not to have met her for 25 years.
Many now suspect that much of Japan’s elderly population may in fact be alive in name only, and maintained by unscrupulous relatives for the purpose of making fraudulent pension claims.
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The 111-year-old man recognised as Japan’s 2nd oldest is in fact a mummified corpse which died 30 years ago.
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The video of the moment a World of Warcraft maniac, who professes to having spent 5 of his 34 years and 24,000 hours of his life playing the hit MMORPG, finally breaks his crippling addiction and deletes his army of alts has recently been attracting a great deal of comment.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Japan, News
- Date: Jul 3, 2010 23:01 JST
- Tags: 2ch, AV, Hikikomori, Idol, Interviews, NEETs, Otaku, Prostitution

An anonymous ex-porn star has granted an interview to 2ch, reproduced below.
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The Japanese government has published research suggesting 80% of the nation’s hikikomori may be mentally ill, with two thirds of those diagnosed having such serious conditions as schizophrenia or mental retardation.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Apr 19, 2010 19:23 JST
- Tags: Aichi, Bizarre, Crime, Hikikomori, Internet, Mental Illness, Money, Murder, Otaku, Shopping

The bizarre case of a hikikomori who went on a berserk killing spree after losing his Internet access, slaughtering his defenceless baby niece and killing his own father, was in fact far stranger than anyone save the family realised – it appears the hikikomori had taken control of the family completely in order to satisfy his obsessive compulsions, finally destroying them when they rebelled against his domination.
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A hikikomori has brutally attempted to murder his entire family of 5, attacking them with a kitchen knife and successfully stabbing to death his father and a 1-year-old baby girl, and seriously wounding the others, after which he burnt down the family home.
The cause of this rampage was the family cancelling his Internet access after he became massively indebted using his father’s credit card.
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Japan’s hikikomori population now has the dubious distinction of having inspired an overseas horror movie, “Haunted Room.”
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Hikikomori asked what they would do if their parents, for most their only source of income, were to die overwhelmingly gave responses such as “commit suicide” or “starve to death.”
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