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August 27th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Over half a million middle- and high-school students in Japan are feared to be strongly addicted to the Internet, prompting authorities to try a revolutionary solution to help teens who cannot voluntarily unplug from the web: Internet ‘fasting’ camps.
The camps are one facet of the Japanese education ministry’s
investigation and research program into Internet addiction among
children slated for the next fiscal year. The ministry has
requested that the government funds the immersion programs, which
are designed to pull children away from their computers, cell
phones and hand-held gaming devices.
“It’s becoming more and more of a problem,” Akifumi
Sekine, a spokesman for the ministry, told The Daily Telegraph.
“We estimate this affects around 518,000 children at middle
and high schools across Japan, but that figure is rising and
there could be far more cases because we don’t know about them
all.”
The ministry hopes to hold the Internet “fasting” camps at
outdoor learning centers and other public facilities where
children will be forced to engage with the non-virtual world.
The teens will be encouraged to participate in outdoor
activities, team sports and games, while psychiatrists and
clinical psychotherapists will be available to aid children who
find the transition too traumatic.
“We want to get them out of the virtual world and to encourage
them to have real communication with other children and
adults,” Sekine said.
The extent to which Japanese teens are increasingly suffering
from Internet dependency was revealed earlier this month
following the release of the first-ever nationwide study on
Internet addiction.
A research team, led by Nihon University professor Takashi Oida,
sent questionnaires to about 140,000 students across the country
between October 2012 and March 2013 to determine their Internet
usage patterns. The team received some 98,000 responses.
Those surveyed were asked eight questions, including whether they
had ever felt compelled to prolong the number of hours spent
online Internet to gain satisfaction, whether they had ever
failed to stop using the Internet, and whether their Internet
activity had had an adverse effect on their relationships with
friends and family.
Of the respondents, some 7,952, or 8.1 percent, were considered
to be “pathologically” addicted to the Internet. Among this
figure, 23.2 percent said they had difficulties falling asleep,
while 15.6 percent said they awoke during the night.
The study also found that the percentage of students who spend
upward of five hours per weekday online was 14 to 15 percent. A
similar percentage of junior high students spent more than five
hours per day online on the weekend, while that figure was 21
percent for high school students.
Based on the findings, Japan’s Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry
estimated that some 518,000 students in schools nationwide suffer
from the addiction.
Side effects observed by the team include sleep and nutritional
disorders, symptoms of depression, and even deep vein thrombosis
– the formation of a blood clot due to long hours of keeping the
same seated posture – also colloquially known as “economy class
syndrome.”
Internet addiction is also believed to be adversely affecting
children’s academic performances.
Source Article from http://rt.com/news/japan-internet-fasting-camps-045/
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