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Yusuke Narita, a Yale economist, has pushed Japan's hottest button his suggestions that the elderly commit "mass suicide". He says his comments were "taken out of context;" his critics accuse him of hate speech
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With , we examined video footage of Narita's interviews and comments. As a Yale ass't professor, he researches algorithms and teaches courses on statistics & econometrics. Online in Japan, he's a provocateur
In a country where young men were sent to die as kamikaze pilots during WWII and Japanese soldiers ordered thousands of families in Okinawa to commit suicide rather than surrender, invoking "mass suicide" or "mass seppuku" touches on historical sensitivities
At times, Dr Narita has pushed boundaries of taste. During a panel, he told audience that “if this can become a Japanese society where people like you all commit seppuku one after another, it wouldn’t be just a social security policy but it would be the best ‘Cool Japan’ policy"
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As always thanks for this article.
You mentioned in the article that Yale hasn’t responded to your request for comments. How many days did you give them to respond? I’m not really sure about this, but as I recall the TImes had a policy to wait for 14 days to respond?
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Apologies i am being harsh... But should.
The media could not be played.
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My grandpa always said never trust a man with one round lens and one square lens on his spectacles.
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NY State is accomplishing this by proxy by removing mask mandates in healthcare facilities. We, the immunocompromised, seniors, and medically vulnerable are no longer of any use to society. Yes, we got the message loud and clear
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Is this why he has recently decided to exit from youtube channel on TV Tokyo recently? Just wondering…
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NYTimesの日本の記者ってやばい奴なの？
全然文脈理解できてないし、これ[ムー]レベルの記事だと思うけど。あのNYTimesがっていうそういう文脈なら、まあおもしろいか
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This Narita guy is completely dishonorable, and dishonor in Japan it's a serius matter.
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成田先生を非難している人達は集団自殺・集団自決という言葉を切り取り多く使用している
本人は言ってはいけない言葉でしたと言っていて自ら発言を控えている
非難する人達は多くのメディアで語ってほしいと熱望している
自分に都合のいい言葉と意味で解釈した幸福な世界に浸る愚かな人間達
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皮肉を言います。バランスの取れた取材と巧みな物語の構成ですね。
ここからは真面目に言います。成田悠輔さんがわざわざ出なくてもよい日本のメディアに登場するのは、日本の政治や社会経済の現状を改善するのに役立ちたいと思っているからでしょう。→
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The sensational words “mass suicide” followed by his explanation, which is actually encouraging mass retirement of decision makers who has been unsuccessful to bounce back Japan for last 30 years. The economy, birth rates, numbers tell yet they still sit in the same positions.
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多くの人が誤解していますが、社会保障費の問題はありません。
現代は金本位制ではないので、別に金（gold）や銀を用意しなくても、moneyは創れますから。
実際、世界中で社会保障費も、国家予算も増え続けています。
経済学者ですら、moneyとは何かよくわかっていません。
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His words don't mean 'old people die'. The real meaning is "older people should retire and give up their seats to younger people".
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えー、きちんと読めてるかわからないけど、Motoko Richさんの記事、とてもバランスが取れてて、しかも知らなかった情報も沢山あったし、貶めるような意図も、偏ってるようにも感じなかったけど。。
もう一回読んでみます。
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Almost all sensible Japanese understand that Mr. Narita does not seriously believe that the elderly should commit suicide.
His intention is to give some sway to the rigid Japanese political world and media.
No typos in the article; here, however, your semicolon belongs outside the quotes and you're missing "with" after "button" in "has pushed Japan's hottest button his suggestions." (Sorry, I only do this with reporters' tweets that are retweeted by institutional Times accounts.)
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His idea has merit but should be studied for the next 50 years before implementation . Narita should be the first practitioner.
Everyone taking about Japanese culture and traditions when the skeleton key to genocide is Yale
I do wonder about the morals of leading economists. They'd put a price to air and let "price signals" find the "optimal solution" to breathing. Very depressing.
Dangerous subversive and disingenuous too. The worst kind of “cool”.
He means it.
This is evil and the NY Times editors who gave the okay to publication of Narita "suggestions" for mass murder are complicit, as are his current hosts at Yale. Please read Hannah Arendt. This is "the gradual normalization of evil" that she warned us about.
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This is evil and the NY Times editors who gave the okay to publication of Narita's "suggestions" for mass murder are complicit, as are his current hosts at Yale. Please read Hannah Arendt. This is "the gradual normalization of evil" that she warned us about.
How can ‘ritual disembowelment’ ever be a statement taken out of context?
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