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Hikikomori newspaper

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In an article titled “Japan’s Most Interesting Newspaper is for Recluses, by Recluses,” the website Atlas Obscura reports on a Japanese newspaper addressed to and run by hikikomori, the young urban recluses of Japan.

“Naohiro Kimura, a 34 year old from Tokyo, launched Hikikomori Shimbun (Hikikomori News) in November 2016, after emerging from a decade spent as hikikomori, when he couldn’t bring himself to take his law school entrance exams and instead shut himself in to study. Hikikomori Shimbun, which publishes every alternate month, profiles individual hikikomori and provides news and resources for recluses and their parents, such as a list of events and support groups focused on reintegrating this collective of outcasts.”

URL: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/japanese-men-who-dont-leave-home

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Scottish hermit “rescued”

The Telegraph reports on a Scottish hermit living in a remote forest rescued after he pressed the emergency button on his personal locator beacon. The device, his only piece of technology, signaled a medical emergency. Roger Milliard, in his seventies, “built his simple home, which has a gravel floor, in the mid-1980s near a remote loch … [he] has no running water or electricity in the log cabin, but a stream runs beside it and he bathes by lighting a fire under an outdoor bath.”

URL: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/06/scottish-hermit-rescued-remote-forest-will-desperate-return/

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“I Nuovi Eremiti” – eremitism web site

“I Nuovi Eremiti” is an Italian-language “blog dedicated to new hermits, metropolitan monks, and contemplatives. Articles, reviews, experiences, new communities and more. The blog aims to be a virtual meeting point for those laypersons who live experiences of contemplative life, eremitism, semi-eremitism, and for those who live following the principles of internalized monasticism.” The site is run by the anonymous “Pilgrim” since 2008. Entries are infrequent but useful in identifying the Catholic tradition of hermit spirituality in the contemporary world.

URL: https://nuovieremiti.blogspot.com/

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Sister Wendy, hermit, RIP

The New York Times (as well as every other major media source) recently announced that: “Sister Wendy Beckett, Nun Who Became a BBC Star, Dies at 88.” Sister Wendy became a television celebrity with her art history television productions in the 1990s, an unlikely presenter because she was a Catholic nun. What few knew was that she was also a hermit when not before the camera, living in a windowless trailer on the grounds of a Carmelite convent in England.

URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/obituaries/sister-wendy-beckett-dead.html

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Modern hermits in photos

Media site Insider offers an item titled “Intimate photos show what it’s really like to be a modern-day hermit.” Among the hermits are some familiar, some less so: Rachel Denton (UK), Masafumi Nagasaki (Japan), Barry Edgar Pilcher (Ireland), Viktor (Siberia), Sostis (Greece), Valentin Pantin, wife Ekaterina, and four children, (Russia), Yiorgos (Greece), and several others.

URL: https://www.thisisinsider.com/inside-the-lives-of-modern-day-hermits-intimate-photos-2018-12