Yale professor suggests mass suicide for elders in Japan – Japan

“Seppuku” is a type of ritual suicide from the samurai culture. Yusuke Narita, assistant professor of economics at the American elite university Yale, used this expression in connection with the Japanese demographic problem. According to the “New York Times”, in a TV show broadcast at the end of 2021, when asked how to deal with the aging of the Japanese population, he is said to have answered “mass suicide and mass seppuku”. Now, more than a year later, his statements have been widely shared on social networks over the past month, causing a heated exchange of views.