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The number of Japanese centenarians whose age has exceeded one hundred years, for the first time in the history of the empire exceeded the mark of sixty thousand human. A recent census showed that at the current moment in the Land of the rising sun lives exactly sixty one one thousand five hundred and sixty-eight citizens at the age of one hundred years and higher.
In many countries of the world, centennials receive from Government greetings. To every Japanese who has lived to such respectable age, local officials send a letter with best wishes and a gift in the form of sakazuki – silver cups for drinking rice vodka. The cost of such a presentation is about fifty american dollars. Because, that the number of centenarians in Japan is increasing every year, the government has already begun to think about cheaper an alternative for congratulating compatriots. For comparison, in 1963 such birthday people in the Land of the Rising Sun accumulated only one hundred fifty three, and the cost of a gift for each of them exceeded then eighty dollars.
Journalists of the Japanese newspaper “Japan Today” write that eighty five percent of people over one hundred years old female. However, the publication’s staff recall that it is here that the oldest man on the planet lives – one hundred and twelve-year-old Yasutaro Koide. According to official statistics, the average man lives in Japan for eighty years, the average woman – eighty seven. Both sexes retire here at sixty five years old.
At the same time, the Japanese government considers centenarians not a burden, but the pride of the country. High economic performance of the state allow you to set good pensions for the elderly. Besides, in Japan decided to put off to old age from a young age. So that the elderly – both men and women – live here not only for a long time, but also happily.
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