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TOKYO: Nearly 1.5 million working-age people in Japan are social recluses, according to a new government survey, with a fifth citing the Covid-19 pandemic as the main reason for their withdrawal.The poll is Japan’s first official comprehensive probe into the prevalence of “hikikomori”, or “shut-ins” -- a phenomenon affecting a broad swathe of society, from teens to the elderly.Reasons for retreating from the country's notoriously conformist and work-focused society range from unemployment to depression or bullying at school or in the workplace.Hikikomori range from people who only go out to shop for groceries or to pursue hobbies, to more extreme cases who rarely leave their homes at all, th

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