Aging hikikomori children's lifelong dependency on parents

[Meanderer]

In June, a 53-year-old Saitama man was arrested for allegedly dumping his mother’s corpse in a mountain ditch. The point, police say, was to conceal her death from the authorities in order to continue receiving her pension. Apparently it was a matter of survival. The man had no other source of income.
This would be merely sordid if it wasn’t, in a sense, increasingly typical. The number of adult children who remain helplessly dependent on their parents is growing alarmingly, says Shukan Post
http://www.japantoday.com/category/...mori-childrens-lifelong-dependency-on-parents

 

[SeaBreeze]

I wonder, was it really a matter of survival? He couldn't possibly get money in any other way than dumping his mother's body somewhere to steal her pension?

 

[Warrigal]

There is a phenomenon in Japan of children who crack under pressure to succeed at school. They refuse to leave their bedrooms and are enabled in their withdrawal by their parents, particularly their mothers, who provide all their for all their needs to placate the tantrums that take place. I've forgotten what the term is but it is not uncommon in Japan.

Silly me, I should have read the link. They are of course called 'hikikomori'.