There are more and more hundred year-old Japanese

in #life7 years ago

Nearly 68,000 Japanese people aged 100 years or more live in Japan.

The Ministry of Health in Tokyo announced this new record, which has been rising steadily for 47 years.

In 1963 this statistic was started, at that time 153 centenarians lived in Japan.

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