Finance Minister Taro Aso has warned of the need to address the country's low birthrate, in a fiscal policy speech. "Now is the time we should tackle the structural challenges of the low birthrate and the aging population," Aso, also deputy prime minister, said. In 2013, he shockingly said that the elderly, including himself, should "hurry up and die" if they were ever on life-support.
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