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[November 2025]
☆Seminar for understanding and supporting hikikomori ●Date and time: Sunday, November 16th, 14:00-16:00 (Registration from 13:30)
●Location: Sukoyaka Plaza Adachi, 3rd floor large training room (capacity 150 people)
5-14-5 Kohoku, Adachi-ku (10 minutes walk from the west exit of Kohoku Station on the Nippori-Toneri Liner)
●Content: The speaker will give a lecture on the concerns that individuals with disabilities have, the best ways to interact with them and provide support, based on his own experience and his perspective as a current supporter.
●Lecturer: Yuji Iwasaki ●No prior application or reservation is required, participation is free
☆ Lecture at Minato Ward Hikikomori Family Classroom
Date and time: November 22nd (Sat) 14:00-16:00
●Location: Azabu Community Collaboration Space
"My Case: Hikikomori, Mental Illness, and then Opening My Own Business"
~About the richness brought about by the "crisis of my emptiness"~
Lecturer for the third of the three-part seminar series, "Emerging, Sublimating."
[February 2026]
In Chiyoda Ward
"My Case: Hikikomori, Mental Illness, and then Opening My Own Business"
-About the abundance brought about by the crisis of "empty self"-
Lectures
・The disability pension seminar "Bringing disability pension closer to you!" is held free of charge.
・The case of "me" who became independent after experiencing social withdrawal and mental illness
On the richness brought about by the "crisis of my emptiness"
will start in 2025. The content varies from a 40-minute lecture to a three-part series (totaling just under three hours).
January 10, 2026 Lecturer for the Disability Pension Seminar at the Adachi Ward Hikikomori Family Support Group
January 9, 2026: Lecturer at the Disability Pension Seminar at the Yell Shinagawa Hikikomori Study Group
November 22, 2025: Lecture at the Minato Ward Hikikomori Family Classroom
"The Case of 'Me' Who Opened Her Own Business After Retreating from Social Hikikomori and Mental Illness - The Richness Brought by the 'Crisis of the Empty Self'" 3rd in a 3-part series: "Sinking - Riding the Rails of Welfare from the Perspective of Shu-Ha-Ri" - "Sublimating - Living as a Passant"
November 16, 2025 Keynote speech at the Adachi Ward Seminar for Understanding and Supporting Hikikomori
"The Case of "Me" Who Opened My Own Business After Recluse and Mental Illness: The Richness Brought About by the Crisis of "Empty Self""
Participate in a 40-minute keynote speech and panel discussion
November 7, 2025 Lecture at the Yell Shinagawa Hikikomori Study Group
"The Case of "Me" Who Opened My Own Business After Recluse and Mental Illness: The Richness Brought About by the Crisis of "Empty Self""
1 hour and 15 minute lecture
Lecture at the Minato Ward Hikikomori Family Classroom on October 25, 2025
"My Case: Hikikomori, Mental Illness, and the Richness Brought by the Crisis of My Empty Self" - Part 2 of a 3-part series: "Struggling"
Lecture at the Minato Ward Hikikomori Family Classroom on October 4, 2025
"My Case: Hikikomori, Mental Illness, and the Richness Brought by the Crisis of the Empty Self" - 3-part series, Part 1: "Sinking"
Lecture at the Minato Ward Hikikomori Family Classroom on October 4, 2025
"My Case: Hikikomori, Mental Illness, and the Richness Brought About by the Crisis of the Empty Self" - Part 1 of a 3-part series
July 19, 2025: Lecturer at the Disability Pension Seminar at Minato Ward Ibasho
June 14, 2025: Participated as a pension counselor in the Katsushika Ward Citizens' University Pension Information Lecture
March 1, 2025: Lecturer at the Disability Pension Seminar at the Edogawa Ward Hikikomori Community Family Association Evergreen
January 26, 2025: Lecturer at the Disability Pension Seminar at Katsushika Ward Family Association
December 6, 2024: Katsushika Ward Employment Support Center for People with Disabilities, Explanation of the Disability Pension Program (for staff) as a former social insurance and labor consultant who is a hikikomori
November 6, 2024: Tohto University, Fukaya Campus, Department of Nursing, Psychiatric Nursing, 1st and 2nd periods, guest speaker
November 9, 2024: Participated as a pension consultant at a free pension seminar sponsored by Katsushika Ward
February 10, 2024: Participated as a pension counselor in the Katsushika Ward Citizens' University Pension Information Lecture
February 9, 2024: Lecturer at the Disability Pension Seminar at Take Heart Kanamachi, an employment support facility in Katsushika Ward
October 29, 2023: Lecturer at the Disability Pension Seminar at Katsushika Ward NPO Miracle Dream Plus
August 25, 2023: Lecturer at the Disability Pension Seminar at the Arakawa Ward Family Association
July 28, 2023: Lecturer at the Disability Pension Seminar at Katsushika Ward Community Activity Support Center Copan
January 12, 2023: Lecturer at the Disability Pension Seminar at Korekarado, Adachi Ward's Type B Continuing Employment Support Facility