Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Japan’s ‘evaporated’ people: Inside an industry that helps people disappear" video.

  1. ​ @agateslate7939  That's because you are evaluating an entire nation based on superficial, often sensationalistic stuff that does not reflect everyday reality. It's not that those things don't exist - they exist in every nation in the world. It's because when you only consume information about Japan through International news coverage, small docs, blog coverage and that sort of stuff that tends to go for the clickbait stuff, plus fictional content such as anime, it creates an unrealistic image of the situation. For each of those, you should look at worldwide statistics for each and every subject to actually check if those are out of the ordinary in Japan in comparison to other nations. But I'll let you some of the stuff I know from previous researches, you can check for yourself if they remain true or not, don't trust a random commenter on YouTube. Hikkikomori came to prominence because it's an officially recogned problem for the Japanese government, with a specific name and all, but it is far from being a Japan exclusive problem. It's just another name for reclusive young adults that are unemployed and don't leave their homes. It is far more common worldwide than most people think, and it's quite likely that Japan is not the leading country for this. Both workaholics, suicide and suicide from overwork also became news because on how Japanese government has prioritized the problem, as well as named some of them specifically like karoshi, but again, those are not as big as some people seem to think in Japan, and other nations have worse statistics on those. Suicide and suicide from overwork both have an interesting characteristic to it - both were rampant back in the 80s and 90s, but the rates dropped sharply over the years, and continues to drop. Meanwhile, in most western nations, both are having meteoric rises to much that some countries nowadays are reaching the levels Japan had back in the 80s and 90s. Now, as for the isekai phenomena, it's more related to how many people play games and understand western fantasy scenarios rather than "desperation to live a new life". If a preference for fictional stories that shows a different world or environment than our own was indicative of desperation to live a new life, then I'm pretty sure all countries all around the world would fit the description. We are all watching movies, tv series, anime, playing games, reading books and whatnot to escape reality to some degree.
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