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October 22, 2018

Best Article

Shutting Themselves In

When Japanese men in their teens and twenties shut themselves in their rooms, sometimes for a period of years, one way to lure them out is a hired “big sister.”

Maggie Jones New York Times Magazine Jan 2006 Permalink