Badass Japanese Hermit

This 68-year-old man is a former karate champion who decided to give up normal life 16 years ago and become a hermit. Here is a TV show visiting his dojo in the hills of Aichi prefecture, where he practices martial arts:

As you can see, he is a very modern hermit who has his own mobile phone. His homepage also seems to show that he occasionally accesses the internet to check his hotmail account and leave site updates.

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7 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - July 28, 2010 at 12:45 pm

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Comment by Zou

2010-07-28 16:02:35

Is he really a hermit if he uses the net lol?

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Comment by Ido

2010-07-28 20:33:57

He definitely isn’t an hermit, or else he wouldn’t read the newspaper.. Accessing the net is fine though, most modern age hermits do that, they call them hikikomori lol

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Comment by Kushieda

2010-07-29 07:38:14

This is no ordinary hermit though, he’s a manly, mountain hermit.

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Comment by anime nerd

2010-08-16 07:04:39

Rofl, if hikikomori are hermits then I’m a hermit too. Somehow that sounds a lot of cooler.

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Comment by jaazmeen

2010-07-28 22:36:20

What a legend!

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Comment by korean_guy

2010-07-29 00:46:21

straight out of KILL BILL!
this hermit looks more like a Chinese koong foo master than a karate master.
looks like a CAPCOM video game caricature.

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Comment by hoihoi

2010-07-29 15:41:10

old one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZKNnaj1BVQ

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