Summary: <br> My <a href="http://del.icio.us/tag/system:filetype:mov+japan">del.icio.us crawling</a> for videos of Japan picked up something interesting today – a well shot mini-documentary on the social-withdrawal phenomena of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori">Hikikomori</a>. I’m not adding this as a video podcast episode since this is not original material, but definitely check it out. <a href="http://www.francescojodice.com/video/hikikomori_eng.mov">Hikikomori video</a>.<br> I have to agree with one of the skateboarder interviewees with the thought that, in some ways, everyone is otaku. I have plenty of friends who I would consider business-otaku. I think I am music-otaku, or perhaps even photography-otaku. If not for the great shots of Japan at night, the video is well worth the guy rocking out on drums at the end. Give it a watch if you are in mellow mood.<br>
