Young adults in Japan are unemployed, disenchanted, and depressed. Roland Kelts talks to poet Misumi Mizuki, novelist Ryu Murakami, and other artists to understand why. And he finds that Japan’s troubled youth might be changing the country for the better.
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I'm really interested in your podcasts. I think that you must include school girls prostitution as one common problem too.
Thks a lot your material is impressive.
Wow.
This episode hit me really hard. I now know that I am ikikamuri. I spend all my time alone and never come out of my apartment except for work.
I owe so much of my youth to Japanese culture, I wish I could help out the guy singing the Beatles song.
o'er my head with doubt
college rises to new heights
my debt runneth over
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