TOKYO (Reuters) - More than 40,000 Japanese aged 100 or more, showed up 10 percent over the previous year, a survey by the government on Friday in remembrance of the recent economic problems facing the world's most rapidly aging country.
Of the 40,399 centenarians, 87 percent are women, health and welfare of the Iraqi Ministry.
An aging population is also expected to shrink is one of the challenges facing the new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and his Democratic Party, voted overwhelmingly last month.
An employee of the burden on small pensions and health care is ballooning requirements shoulder. A little more than three people of working age now support each elderly person, but in 50 years, the ratio is closer to unity one.
Hatoyama Democrats have committed themselves, had the pension system with a minimum of 70,000 yen ($ 765) per month for the normalization of qualifying low-income or not enough contributions for a pension.
The number of centenarians in Japan to second place in the world behind the United States, which has more than 96,000 according to estimates by the U.S. Census Bureau. But the American population is more than twice as high as in Japan.
Japan has the longest life expectancy in the world, with experts citing a healthy diet, the quality of health care and a tradition of active retirees as factors in the phenomenon.
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