National / Science & Health Jul 30, 2022
Life expectancy in Japan sees first decline in 10 years amid pandemic
The average life span for women was 87.57 years, down by 0.14 year, while that of men shrank 0.09 year to 81.47 years.
National May 24, 2022
Okinawa had the longest average life expectancy among Japan's 47 prefectures in 1980 for men and women, but both have slipped down the rankings.
World / Social Issues Sep 26, 2018
In polluted city above Russian Arctic Circle, prisoners of Putin's pension reform
Russian railway worker Andrey Bugera had a singular goal: get to pension age so he can leave the polluted, frigid coal mining town above the Arctic Circle where he works and move south to live out even a brief bit of retirement in comfort. But ...
National Jul 21, 2018
Japan’s women held onto their second-place ranking but the men slipped to third.
National Dec 13, 2017
Ministry survey on average life expectancies ranks Shiga top for men and Nagano best for women
The average life expectancy in 2015 for Japanese men was highest in Shiga Prefecture, at 81.78 years, a health ministry survey showed Wednesday. The average life expectancy for women was highest in Nagano Prefecture, at 87.67 years, according to the survey, which has been conducted ...
National Jul 28, 2017
Japan climbs to second in world life expectancy thanks to medical advances, suicide prevention steps
Japanese men and women ranked second in the world in average life expectancy in 2016 after setting new longevity records for a fifth year straight, according to the welfare ministry data. According to the data released Thursday by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, Japan's ...
National / Science & Health Jul 20, 2017
Japan's life expectancy increases by 4.2 years over quarter century
by Shusuke Murai
A research study finds that average life expectancy in Japan has increased to 83.2 years from 79.0 years during the quarter-century period, but the gap between prefectures has widened.
National / Science & Health May 17, 2017
Continuing streak, Japan leads world in life expectancy, WHO report says
by Tomoko Otake
People in Japan continue to outlive those in other countries, marking the world's longest average life expectancy of 83.7 years, according to the latest World Health Organization report released Wednesday. The World Health Statistics 2017, covering data from 194 countries, show that the nation's life ...
National Sep 13, 2016
The number of centenarians has risen by 4,124 from a year ago to 65,692 as of September.
National / Science & Health Aug 28, 2015
In a 2013 study of 188 countries by the British medical journal Lancet, Japan ranked first in “healthy life expectancy.”
National / History | 70 YEARS AFTER THE WAR'S END Aug 17, 2015
Japan's dramatic postwar evolution
by Atsushi Kodera
This is the last report in a five-part series looking at the impact of World War II still being felt in Japanese society. In the 70 years since the end of the war the Japanese people and society have undergone radical changes. The following is a ...
National / Social Issues Jun 24, 2015
Women in Okinawa have Japan's best recipe for liberty, fertility and longevity
by Yoshiaki Nohara
Women in Okinawa have more babies and live longer than women from almost anywhere else in Japan. If data from the statistics bureau and labor ministry are any guide, it has as much to do with work-life balance as the prefecture's sun-drenched beaches and crystal-clear ...