Hello, teacher John
About the way to do this homework I think that first I must have the story about hikikomori more than I have at that time then I search hikikomori on the internet and read about them.
And from many website that I read about hikikomori I think that hikikomori is the persons that have problems to go to socialize that most of the problem come from a social pressures like educational competition, the work that must not have the error. For the problem in the top that make hikikomori try to go out of socialize like live in their home all day and try to avoid meeting people for a period exceeding six months. And then they build their world and are happy with it. They like to sleep in the afternoon and wake up in the evening. And when they wake up most of them are going to eat, go to convenience store to buy food and keep them in the refrigerator, play game, watch TV, surf the internet, do something that they like to do and somebody sit and watch room wall all day.
In my opinion I think that hikikomori are the poor persons. They will have a problem about their life in future and I think that they are a human like me. So try to get them back in socialize is a good way to solve the problem about hikikomori.