When hikikomoris are the age of schoolchildren, they are called futoko. Futoko literally means “non-attendance” and it is the recent term replaced with the previous term “tokokyohi” which means “school refusal”. This renaming was initiated by the Ministry of Education and its purpose was to recognize the problem of non-attendance of children as an outcome of various factors based on the assumption that it can happen to anyone rather than determining it as an individual psychological issue (Takayama, 2008, p. 34). According to the data of the Japanese Ministry of Education, last year 127,000 students from elementary and middle school did not attend school, and more precisely speaking, one in 35 students in middle school did not attend school (Ministry of Education, 2010). The author argues that this tendency of identifying the problem of hikikomori as social or educational, not an individual’s is problematic since there are some radical groups who simply claim that what needs to be changed is not an individual but it is the “school” or “society” since they insist that the children are the victims of school and society.