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In Japan, a growing number of youth is hiding from society and “confined to the inside [home]” (Ohashi, 2008). This syndrome of social withdrawal among youth is called “hikikomori”, a phenomenological concept of social condition of remaining homebound for over 6 months avoiding any types of social participations. Hikikomori syndrome among Japanese youth was used to be seen as a psychiatric issue (Kato et al., 2012) but recently not only a psychiatric issue but also a socio-cultural issue (Saitō, 2013) due to their long-term condition of social isolation in Japanese society and culture. One social-cultural issue that youth in hikikomori condition in Japan is that although many have needs to achieve social independence, these needs do not seem to motive their actual actions and behavior for going out from their house, which result in staying at home for long periods of time.This unfortunate disconnection between the need and the behavior among Japanese hikikomori youth poses the question of the nature of “information need” which is normally considered a cause of information seeking (Case & Given, 2016) and thus a trigger and a driver of information seeking behavior (Savolainen, 2017) which, however, does not appear to apply to the case of Japanese youths in social withdrawal condition. In fact, in a comparative study on information needs of Finnish and

Exploring hikikomori's information needs in Japanese context: applying a narrative inquiry approach with their dialogue