A number of researchers and writers have argued that hikikomori is evidence that Japanese society is collapsing [3]. In this view, traditional Japanese society is envisioned as a rigid, collectivist social structure where boys are automatically singled out for the family’s attention and forced to conform with highly defined cultural protocols and rules as a prerequisite to personal and professional success. Such factors as the globalization of commerce, entertainment, the use of social media, and even the recent Japanese tsunami and nuclear catastrophe have all had dramatic consequences on the collective moral power carried in the traditional behavior of the past. In the face of such monumental social changes, many male adolescents are still facing intense pressure from their families to continue conforming to traditional Japanese cultural norms and expectations of appropriate behavior. Such norms are not only anchored in Japan’s common history of national development, they are also particularly important to many families that maintain strong generational memories of their importance in guiding the recreation of a coherent Japanese society (the Japanese Miracle) in the aftermath of World War II and its utter national and physical devastation.