Ubasute (姥捨て, "abandoning an old woman", also called obasute and sometimes oyasute 親捨て "abandoning a parent") is a mythical practice of senicide in Japan...

directed by Keisuke Kinoshita. Both films explore the legendary practice of ubasute, in which elderly people were carried to a mountain and abandoned to die...

name by Shichirō Fukazawa. The film explores the legendary practice of ubasute, in which elderly people were carried to a mountain and abandoned to die...

novel's publication, and the place has long been associated with death; ubasute may have been practiced there into the nineteenth century, and the forest...

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themselves off a high cliff in ritual suicide once they reach the age of 72. Ubasute Euthanasia Thalaikoothal Weibull, Lauritz Ulrik Absalon (1996). Scandia...

of Inuit senicide was in 1939. According to legends a practice called Ubasute (姥捨, 'abandoning an old woman') was performed in Japan in the distant past...

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films at that time of year to the supposed ancient Japanese custom of ubasute, in which elderly people who could no longer take care of themselves were...

other locations, such as the side of a public street. A practice known as ubasute, existed in Japanese mythology since centuries ago, involving of legends...