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  euroclear
  Related, perhaps?The secret to living to 110? Bad record-keeping, says Ig Nobel Prize winner.https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2024/12/25/lifestyle/lifes...
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  decimalenough
  Okinawa, Japan is famously one of the world's five "blue zones" and much ink has been expended on figuring out why. Bitter gourd or certain types of seaweed, perhaps?What's less often discussed is that it's also Japan's poorest prefecture to this day, with spotty record keeping since it was effectively a Japanese colony (it was previously the Ryukyu Kingdom, which was annexed by Japan in 1879). Vast slabs of the main island were razed to the ground during the WW2 Battle of Okinawa and much of the civilian population simply starved to death.
• famahar
  Anecdotal, but living in Japan now and I do eat much healthier and walk way more than I ever did. Sometimes it's just for fun since the city I live in is walkable, but also my commute to work involves at least an hour of walking to and from stations which I have gotten used to.As others have mentioned, social pressure plays a role in fitness, but there definitely is an abundance of unhealthy food. A previous generation may have had less unhealthy food options, so I'd be interested to see if this trend continues. All the greasy fast food chains exist here too and they are always packed.
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  sleigh-bells
  I wonder why nearly all the focus in the US on healthy diets is on the Mediterranean diet and not the Japanese one...(Greece commits a lot of pension fraud too)
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  jonathan920
  I actually lived in Japan for 2+ mths , ate like how I ate more than what I ate in Singapore , literally lost 5kg. I was remote working there but do travel out and walk during weekends.I actually miss the dirty oil fried food from Singapore , it’s much nicer when it’s greasy. Japan cooking oil is very clean , food quality is much higher too, less processed.
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  senko
  I love how the common consensus in comments here is not "what should we do in our societies to increase the number of old people in good health?" but "they're lying".
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  TrackerFF
  Wonder when these folks retired.Kind of blows my mind that there are people out there that have lived longer in retirement, than they have worked.
• onlypassingthru
  NHK, the Japanese national broadcaster, has a bunch of programs that highlight small businesses across the country with owner/operators, many of whom who work well beyond the traditional retirement age. It's pretty common to see people in their 70's & 80's running a family business or working at one. These small business owners often have had entire careers elsewhere then come back to the family business for a second career in retirement age. Being the third/fourth/fifth generation owner of a small business is very common in these shows and not one has ever said it's the Omega 3's in their diet keeping them going.
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  JJMcJ
  100K out of 123 million is about 1 in 1200, not so absurd.Certainly life span is long in Japan even if some of the centenarians aren't really that old.
• wewewedxfgdf
  I know someone who wants to live as long as he possibly can. Not appealing to me at all.
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  zac23or
  I read such news with a grain of salt:However, when officials went to congratulate him on his 111th birthday, they found his 30-year-old remains, raising concerns that the welfare system is being exploited by dishonest relatives. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-11258071 (2010)
• edm0nd
  Japans whole "hikikiomori" population is estimated to be in between 500k to over 1M people.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomorithese old people are gunna be kinda fucked
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  anikom15
  That’s wonderful. I hope I can live so long.
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  aetherson
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