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Volume 15 - Issue 5 - March 2017

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In the Woods of Memory
Medoruma Shun, Takuma Sminkey
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14 March 2025, e1
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Medoruma Shun, widely recognized as Okinawa's leading novelist, has published a new novel, translated by Takuma Sminkey as In the Woods of Memory, set in the Battle of Okinawa and on the sixtieth anniversary of the battle. The Asia-Pacific Journal is proud to publish the first chapter of the novel and an introduction to Medoruma's work.

Hikikomori: The Japanese Cabinet Office's 2016 Survey of Acute Social Withdrawal
Nicolas Tajan, Hamasaki Yukiko, Nancy Pionnié-Dax
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In September 2016, the Cabinet Office of Japan published the results of an epidemiological survey focusing on acute social withdrawal (hikikomori). This article summarizes and assesses the major features of the survey. It aims at facilitating research and international exchanges on a mental health and social problem affecting at least 541,000 people in Japan that seems to have spread to industrialized societies.

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Volume 15 - Issue 5 - March 2017

Research Article

In the Woods of Memory

Hikikomori: The Japanese Cabinet Office's 2016 Survey of Acute Social Withdrawal