'I want to be alone': Japanese man, 76, braves typhoons and biting insects living naked on tropical island (so long as he gets his weekly supply of rice cakes)

He rarely wears clothes and eats almost nothing but rice cakes but Masafumi Nagasaki says the small inhospitable Japanese island he chose to live on two decades ago is where he wants to die.

Where most people look forward to winding down when they retire, nothing was further from the mind of this sun-scorched 76-year-old who gives a new meaning to the term golden oldie.

In the early nineties Mr Nagasaki decided to shun mainstream society to set up base on the little island of Sotobanari, translation ‘Outer Distant Island’ to while out his final years.      Full Read