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The number of people aged 100 in Japan has steadily increased to over 90,000.
Xinhua news agency reported fromสล็อตxoTokyo. Japan on Sept. 18, a report by Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said the country's population aged 100 and over stood at 90,526, an increase of 4,016 in the latest year. It hit a record high for the 52nd year in a row, and about 88.6%, or 80,161 of those over 100 in Japan, are women.
Japan began to record such statistics in 1963, when that year there were only 153 people aged 100 years and over. However, after that, the statistics continued to increase. Until more than 1,000 in 1981, and 10,000 in 1998 and over 50,000 in 2012.
Japan's oldest woman holding the record is 115-year-old Fusa Tatsumi from Kashiwara City. in Osaka The oldest man in Japan is Shigeru Nakamura, 111, from Jinseki Kogen. in Hiroshima Prefecture