{"id":2697,"date":"2025-09-15T14:03:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T14:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2025-09-15T14:03:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T14:03:52","slug":"japans-centenarian-population-hits-new-record-nearly-100000-over-age-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/?p=2697","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Centenarian Population Hits New Record \u2014 Nearly 100,000 Over Age 100"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japan\u2019s government is reporting a new milestone: as of September 1, 2025, there are 99,763 centenarians (people aged 100 or older) living in the country \u2014 the highest number ever recorded.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This figure marks 55 straight years of growth in the number of centenarians. \u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Of these ~99,763 people, about 88% are women (87,784 women, 11,979 men). \u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Japan\u2019s oldest living person is Shigeko Kagawa, aged 114, who lives in Nara Prefecture. The oldest man is Kiyotaka Mizuno, aged 111. \u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Experts point to Japan\u2019s lifestyle, including a healthy diet rich in seafood and vegetables, community exercise, strong public health systems, and overall low rates of obesity and associated diseases as major contributing factors. \u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Challenges &amp; Social Impacts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>While increasing lifespans are a sign of progress, Japan faces serious demographic and economic challenges because of an aging population. Fewer young people, fewer births, and a shrinking labor force are putting pressure on welfare, healthcare, and pension systems. \u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The burden of care and services for the elderly is growing, and there\u2019s concern about how to sustain this level of support in the decades ahead.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The government has been responding with a mix of policies aimed at boosting birth rates (family-friendly policies, childcare support), encouraging active aging, and improving elderly care systems. \u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s government is reporting a new milestone: as of September 1, 2025, there are 99,763 centenarians (people aged 100 or older) living in the country \u2014 the highest number ever recorded.&nbsp; Key Details Challenges &amp; Social Impacts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[408],"tags":[1646,1649,1645,1644,1648,1643,1642,1650,1647,220],"class_list":["post-2697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-verified-viral-news","tag-aging-population","tag-centenarians","tag-demographic-crisis","tag-healthy-living","tag-japan","tag-longevity","tag-over100","tag-record","tag-shigeko-kagawa","tag-verified-viral"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2699,"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions\/2699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}