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Re:The prison inside: Japan's hikikomori lack relationships,... by closeparen on Monday June 03, 2019 @12:56PM (#20085364)
In a bad harvest year you were going to starve, in a wartime defeat you were going to be killed or sold into slavery, and in an epidemic you were going to die.

Futures were far from certain with those existential threats on the horizon.

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