Shutting out the Sun

I attended a great talk this evening with Michael Zielenziger, author of the new book "Shutting out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation." His summary of Japan's economic and social collapse over the past fifteen years is chilling and deeply insightful. The book uses the phenomenon of hikikomori—young Japanese men who lock themselves in their apartments for years at a time—as a prism for looking at all of Japanese culture.