National Jul 30, 2019
Life expectancy of Japanese women and men continues to rise in 2018
Japanese women and men retained second and third place in their respective rankings for average life expectancy around the world in 2018.
World / Science & Health Apr 5, 2019
Global life expectancy up 5.5 years since 2000; income and access to care play key roles: WHO
Global life expectancy grew by 5.5 years between 2000 and 2016, the World Health Organization said Thursday, warning though that unequal income and access to health care translates into far shorter lives for many. The U.N. health agency also stressed significant gender differences in life ...
World / Science & Health Nov 30, 2018
U.S. life expectancy falls again as overdose deaths top 70,000 and suicides surge
Life expectancy in the United States dropped yet again as drug overdose deaths continued to climb — taking more than 70,000 lives in 2017, a record high — and suicides rose, a U.S. government report said Thursday. The drug overdose rate rose 9.6 percent compared ...
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.
World / Science & Health May 19, 2016
Life expectancy worldwide has increased by about five years in the last 15 years, according to a report issued Thursday by the World Health Organization in the fastest gain since the 1960s. The biggest increase was seen in Africa due to improvements in health care ...
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.”