Download or read book Shutting Out the Sun written by Michael Zielenziger and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2006 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey inside modern-day Japan reveals the economic and social realities that have created a lost generation of Japanese young adults, examining the country's a high suicide rate, low birthrate, untreated cases of depression, young men who have become recluses from society, and young women who have rejected the traditional path to marriage and motherhood. 30,000 first printing.