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  2. Japan’s elderly are lonely and struggling. Some women choose ...

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    Some do it for survival – 20% of people aged over 65 in Japan live in poverty, according to the OECD, compared to an average of 14.2% across the organization’s 38 member countries. Others do ...

  3. Welfare in Japan - Wikipedia

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    The earliest Japanese idea of welfare first appeared in 1874 during the Meiji Period when Mercy and Relief Regulation introduced a cash allowance exclusively to orphans under 13, those who were unable to work due to illness, disabilities or old age and those who were under 15 or over 70 and lived in extreme poverty. In 1897, the Japan Social ...

  4. Elderly people in Japan - Wikipedia

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    This article focuses on the situation of elderly people in Japan and the recent changes in society. Japan's population is aging. During the 1950s, the percentage of the population in the 65-and-over group remained steady at around 5%. Throughout subsequent decades, however, that age group expanded, and by 1989 it had grown to 11.6% of the ...

  5. Aging of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Life expectancy for women in Japan is 87 years, five years more than that of the U.S. [104] Men in Japan have a life expectancy of 81 years, four years more than that of the U.S. [104] Japan has more centenarians than any other country, 58,820 in 2014, or 42.76% per 100,000 people. Almost one in five of the world's centenarians live in Japan ...

  6. Japan's top court orders government to compensate disabled ...

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    An estimated 25,000 people were sterilized between the 1950s and 1970s without consent to “prevent the birth of poor-quality descendants" under law, described by plaintiffs’ lawyers as “the ...

  7. Respect for the Aged Day - Wikipedia

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    In 2017, Japan honored 32,097 people (27,461 women and 4,636 men) who turned 100 years old; they each received congratulatory letter and souvenir sake cup from the Prime Minister. According to this report [ 4 ] the solid sterling silver cups were replaced with nickel alloy silver plated design which halved the per-unit cost, saving $1-million ...

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