A Yale economics professor has some ideas for how to deal with the burdens of Japan’s rapidly aging society. The “only solution,” he said, is mass suicide of the elderly, including ritual disembowelment.
What I find strange is that he likened it to 'Sepukku', honour-linked ritual disembowelment, rather than Ubasute, the legendary practice of carrying infirm/elderly ppl to a mountain, and leaving them there to die (eg, the Ballad of Narayama).