Old people should embrace ‘mass suicide’, says Yale professor

Academic says remark that Japanese tradition of self-evisceration is ‘the only solution’ to growing state burden was taken out of context

Old people in Japan should kill themselves to avoid burdening the state, a professor at Yale University has said....

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