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7/23/2025, 12:27:16 AM No.511086545
>Old people in Japan should commit mass suicide says Yale professor
>An assistant professor at one of the most prestigious universities in the U.S. has said that the “clear solution” to Japan’s aging society is for “mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ (ritual disembowelment) of the elderly”.
>His comments were slammed as “hatred towards the vulnerable” – and critics pointed to Japan’s already alarming rate of suicide amongst older people.
>Japan’s rapidly greying population is projected to shrink by more than 50% before 2100, and Japan’s Prime Minister has recently warned that his country will fall over an economic and social cliff unless it reverses its population decline.
>Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor of economics at Yale, shared his views in an online news program in late 2021 saying: “In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ of the elderly?”
>Seppuku is the practice of ritual suicide that was practised by Japan’s ancient samurai warrior class – an act that involved stabbing oneself in the stomach with a short sword before turning the blade upwards.
https://thelifeinstitute.net/news/2023/old-people-in-japan-should-commit-mass-suicide-says-yale-professor
Is he right? Does Japan need a final solution to the boomer question?
>An assistant professor at one of the most prestigious universities in the U.S. has said that the “clear solution” to Japan’s aging society is for “mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ (ritual disembowelment) of the elderly”.
>His comments were slammed as “hatred towards the vulnerable” – and critics pointed to Japan’s already alarming rate of suicide amongst older people.
>Japan’s rapidly greying population is projected to shrink by more than 50% before 2100, and Japan’s Prime Minister has recently warned that his country will fall over an economic and social cliff unless it reverses its population decline.
>Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor of economics at Yale, shared his views in an online news program in late 2021 saying: “In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ of the elderly?”
>Seppuku is the practice of ritual suicide that was practised by Japan’s ancient samurai warrior class – an act that involved stabbing oneself in the stomach with a short sword before turning the blade upwards.
https://thelifeinstitute.net/news/2023/old-people-in-japan-should-commit-mass-suicide-says-yale-professor
Is he right? Does Japan need a final solution to the boomer question?
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