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“Not a NEET!”

NEETs. I’m sure some of the people out there knows what it means. However, for those who are unfamiliar with the acroym, NEET stats for Not in Education, Employment or Training, which generally means for people who laze at home doing absolutely nothing with relation to the E.E.T described above.

Since the phrase originally came from UK (if i’m not wrong, correct me if i am!) and gaining popularity in Japan and other countries, most of the people would think of NEETs as people who would sit at their computers all day long, doing nothing except gaming. And some may associate them with hikikomoris too. Regardless of how true these assumptions are, there’s one thing for sure: Japan’s heading towards an increasingly popular trend of NEET.

Generally, the classifications of NEET are separated into 2 groups, as the Japanese government classifies people aged between 15-34 as people are who well and able, but is not engaged in any of the above mentioned activities. This classifications are further divided into 2 groups, which has the range of 15-24 and 25-34 respectively.

A comparison between 2002 and 2008 had shown that there was a 20,000 increase, which brings the total amount of NEETs in Japan to 640,000 as of 2008. In this figure, it’s split into two different groups whose information is shown below:

• “15-24″ Age Group: 260,000 (as of 2009) — Dropped by 30,000 as compared to 2002.
• “25-34″ Age Group: 380,000 (as of 2008) — Rose by 30,000 as compared to 2002.

Another pressing issue that is presented when dealing with the NEETs is the fact that Japan’s heading towards an aging population. This means that there will be more elderly than youngsters in a few more years. Of course, that doesn’t mean any good to any countries. With about 40 million people whose age are below 30, Japan is moving to help these NEETs at any possible ways, as these people are the ones that will drive the country in the future.

Some of the factors that had contributed to the increase of NEETs is the nonattendance at school and leaving high school midway.

Via: JapanToday.

However, to think that being a NEET is getting more popular these days due to reasons described above, I really wonder what changes the government will need to bring to get rid of these plagues…

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