<figure id="attachment_295917" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-295917" style="width: 1216px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="00f8b8f8"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/02/7b8e833f2f65b120e20a186f63f7ac29.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-295917" class="wp-caption-text">Yusuke Narita, whose &#8220;collective suicide&#8221; comment has caused controversy around the world (from the official website of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI))</figcaption></figure>
 Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor at Yale University in the U.S., is a popular figure on TV and the Internet.
 Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor at Yale University in the U.S., who has been widely quoted on TV and Internet programs, said, &#8220;The elderly should commit mass suicide and commit mass seppuku before they become old people.
 This statement has caused a great deal of controversy overseas as well.
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 Narita has always said that aging politicians and celebrities should &#8220;retire. When he co-hosted an Internet program with Soichiro Tahara and Hiroyuki Nishimura, a.k.a. &#8220;Hiroyuki,&#8221; he once said to Soichiro Tahara to his face, &#8220;We need a generational change, so Mr. Tahara should take the initiative and retire.
 Mr. Narita is a genius who won the Ouchi Hyoue Prize for his graduation thesis at the University of Tokyo, where he graduated first in his class. He is currently researching public policy using data and algorithms.
 He also used the term &#8220;social seppuku,&#8221; which refers to the idea that it is not good for society to have elderly people sitting around as &#8220;active&#8221; members of society. The New York Times may have taken the metaphor a bit too far and published it.
 Hiroyuki also wrote on Twitter
 When I see a story written by a Japanese national in the Tokyo office of the NYTimes, and Dr. Narita is under fire overseas, I wonder if it was this kind of match-pumping that led to the spread of the Asahi Shimbun&#8217;s false story about the military comfort women overseas. It&#8217;s a situation where a metaphorical story is being passed off as if it were serious.
 He expressed a sympathetic view.
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 On the other hand, Twitter is surely ablaze with countless posts about Mr. Narita, the &#8220;yale economics professor.
 Hanako, who runs the YouTube channel &#8220;Even High School Students Understand U.S. Stocks,&#8221; and who worked as an analyst at a U.S. bank for 15 years, also posted the following on Twitter
 Narita-san&#8217;s comments are reported in the US as well. America doesn&#8217;t like this kind of language, even if it&#8217;s a clipping.
 There are words that should not be said even in metaphors, and if he said &#8220;collective suicide,&#8221; why can&#8217;t he understand that it will lead to an international problem when we now have the Uighur Genocide issue in China?
 He criticized the idea.
 On the other hand, a look at Yale University&#8217;s website reveals the following
 Professor Narita&#8217;s opinions on media and academic research are his own and do not represent the views of the Department of Economics or Yale University.
 The statement reads as follows.
 If the flames continue to fly abroad, it is possible that Yale University will hold Narita accountable in some way. It would not be surprising if the term &#8220;collective suicide&#8221; becomes a buzzword and human rights groups overseas start to make a fuss about it. Still, given Narita&#8217;s personality, I don&#8217;t think he cares at all about public opinion&#8230;&#8221; (TV station insider)
 Japan has more than 36 million elderly people aged 65 and over. What does Mr. Narita, a genius with a unique perspective, see in the future of this country?

 Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor at Yale University in the U.S., is a sought-after commentator on TV and other media as a "modern-day genius. His comments on "collective suicide" have come under fire around the world...

Yusuke Narita’s comment about “mass suicide of the elderly” has caused a great deal of controversy overseas as well.

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