In the U.S., homeschooling is pretty accepted as the alternative way to educate kids, and a report says that 3-5 % of kids in the U.S. are currently homeschooled. The percentage comes out that there is one homeschooling kid in a class of 3…

Although self-esteem is generally interpreted to be self-respect, self-confidence or self-love, they still have some ambiguity for the definition. Keshky and Samack (2017) define self-esteem that it is a belief of an individual which "enco…

www.cnn.com 320,000- this is the (documented) number of school bullying happened in Japan in 2016. This comes out that on average 12 cases happened in every elementary school, 7 cases for every junior high school and 2 cases for each high …

As well as hikikomori, neet or niito is also a growing phenomenon of social dropouts in Japan. Neet is a young person who is "Not in Education, Employment, or Training" (OECD, 2018). Neets basically refer to people who already finished the…

Japan has encountered a growing phenomenon of social dropouts, first as 6-15 year old children who refuse to go to school (toukou kyohi) and then later as adults who stay sheltered at home most of the day (hikikomori) (Vogel, 2012). There …