Akiko did not step out of her house once between the ages of 15 and 22.
"I didn't want to see people," said Akiko, now 27. "I was afraid of people."
After Akiko graduated from junior high school, where she attended classes for a total of 10 days over a three-year period, she withdrew into the world of her bedroom in Omiya, Saitama Prefecture.
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