Japan boasts the second-highest life expectancy in the world, according to World Health Organization statistics.
The country has 90,526 people over the age of 100, according to a September survey (pdf) by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare.
Among this record number of golden agers, the island of Okinawa has 1,334 centenarians, including 152 men and 1,182 women, with the most senior being 114 years old. The islands of Okinawa Prefecture are one of the world’s “Blue Zones,” where people live much longer than the global average.
Okinawans are three times more likely to reach the age of 100 than Americans, have one-fifth the rate of heart disease, and have about seven more years of healthy life expectancy than Americans, Toyo Keizai reported….