Owing to the COVID pandemic, the average life expectancy of Japanese people has declined in 2022 for the second straight year, according to the health ministry, reported Kyodo News. Earlier, the ...

Shigeko Kagawa, a 114-year-old retired physician, has been recognized as Japan's oldest living person, following the passing of Miyoko Hiroyasu. Kagawa attributes her longevity to a life of freedom, ...

Japan once again has broken its own record! With the highest number of people aged 100 or older reaching up to whopping, 99,763 this September (2025). This has marked the 55th consecutive year ...

The Japanese population is known for its longest life expectancy (LE) at birth. Extensive studies have been conducted on the physical health of the Japanese population, mainly on mortality outcomes.

TOKYO -- Japan's average life expectancy reached 85.2 years in 2021, 5.8 years longer than about three decades before, but the period spent with health issues and prefectural disparities also grew, a ...

GENEVA – Girls born in Japan today are likely to live until the year 2095, some with a good chance of seeing the dawn of the next century thanks to the world's longest life expectancy. Japan's child ...

Decades of advances in medical technology and public health are causing global populations to age. While achieving longer ...

People in Hong Kong boast a high life expectancy, with women typically reaching almost 88.5 years and men over 83. A big reason for this is that folks there stay active, walking nearly 7,000 steps ...

For most of human history, life unfolded quickly and ended abruptly. In the early 19th century, global life expectancy ...

Singapore tops the 2025 “healthiest country” rankings, but places like Japan still lead in life expectancy. Learn why “healthiest” and “longest‑lived” aren’t always the same, and what this means for ...