TOKYO: The number of people aged 100 or older in rapidly greying Japan has hit a record high for the 44th straight year, the government said Friday.
The country's centenarian population jumped by 4,423 from a year earlier to a record 58,820 as of September 1, the health ministry said, adding that 87.1 percent of them were women.
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