Japan stellt mit fast 100.000 Menschen im Alter von über 100 neuen Rekord

This is a record you don’t want to have when you have a declining birthrate and too few young tax payers supporting the people above like a reverse financial pyramid scheme.

Immigration of new people doesn’t seem to be an option given how openly racist the Japanese are and the insurmountable barriers to entry they put up for outsiders.

Sadly, the Japanese culture is likely to die out this century but it was all avoidable and entirely self inflicted.

Reminder : There was a study that showed many of the people who thought they were 100 were NOT.

They were either dead (alive on paper) or were told they were born years earlier than they actually were

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.06.24313170v1

It’s kind of weird over here in Japan now. A lot of heads buried in the sand( happening all over the world these days).

I’ve lived over here off and on for the last 8 years. I can literally watch the system cracking under the weight. Everyone can see it. It’s happening that fast over here. It is only the older generations that are doing everything they can to stop immigration even as companies literally shutter everyday for lack of workers. When my son was younger earlier in my time over here, we used to bike in search of distant parks, but after finding so many overgrown and abandoned, We stopped.

The joke I’ve starTed making when it comes up in convo now is “ go home and make some babies, open the borders or shut up and learn Mandarin. Those are your only choices.

Good news for a lot of first world countries is that we are going to let Japan do the “ let’s see what happens” when the depopulation of a major industrialized country occurs first. Japan sometimes comes up with really good solutions. Maybe they can manage it.

„The higher life expectancy is mainly attributed to fewer deaths from heart disease and common forms of cancer, in particular breast and prostate cancer.

Japan has low rates of obesity, a major contributing factor to both diseases, thanks to diets low in red meat and high in fish and vegetables.

The obesity rate is particularly low for women, which could go some way to explaining why Japanese women have a much higher life expectancy than their male counterparts.

As increased quantities of sugar and salt crept into diets in the rest of the world, Japan went in the other direction – with public health messaging successfully convincing people to reduce their salt consumption.

But it’s not just diet. Japanese people tend to stay active into later life, walking and using public transport more than elderly people in the US and Europe.“

And nearly 100 aged under 1!

Are they living a good life, been looked after or homeless and struggling?