Japan’s birthrate may be low, but they have really figured out the opposite end of life. As of this month, nearly 100,000 people in the country are officially over 100 years old. This is according to Japan’s Ministry of Health.

That’s more than the entire population of some small countries, except the Japanese, who are probably eating less red meat and doing more morning calisthenics than all the others.

Women lead the charge into triple digits, making up 88 percent of centenarians. The current oldest living person in Japan is a 114-year-old woman from Nara named Shigeko Kagawa. Its oldest living man is 111-year-old Kiyotaka Mizuno, who lives near the ocean, presumably with good seafood.

Japan Now Has Nearly 100,000 People Over 100

Back in 1963, there were only 153 people over 100. By

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