Some 86 percent of people born in the 1970s have allergies against things such as mites and cedar pollen, researchers at the National Center for Child Health and Development in Tokyo estimated Monday.
The figure is extremely high, even compared with other countries such as New Zealand, where there are high incidences of allergies, as the percentages in reports from those countries stand at below 70 percent, the researchers said.
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