Our community is in crisis. Last May I found an around seventy-years-old guy streaking on a back street early in the afternoon. Today I caught an around eighty-years-old thief guy on the same backstreet late in the afternoon. I visited two houses that the crook creeped in with a cop, though house owners didn't respond to our calling. They stayed inside the houses at the time; we checked it. Their neighbors told us that those two persons had never have any connections with others for these five to six years. What is going on there? Those two are around the middle age according to the neighbors. What are they do daily? Anyway we have lost any clue to approach them.


Old crooks, middle age retreats a.k.a. "Hikikomori", ... ... This is the reality of the modern Tokyo's urban community. We might see a day on which we should find a body in those houses next May ... ...