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Jewish News 24 · Sep 15, 2026

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🇯🇵 JAPAN TOPS 100,000 CENTENARIANS: According to Japan’s Health Ministry, the country has surpassed 100,000 people aged 100 or older for the first time, reaching a record 107,677, nearly 8,000 more than last year, with women making up about 88%. Japan’s oldest living person is 114-year-old Fuyo Kishimoto, the last confirmed person born during the Meiji era, while the oldest man, 112-year-old Hikaru Katō, still exercises at his nursing home. When Japan began tracking centenarians in 1963, there were just 153.

🇯🇵 JAPAN TOPS 100,000 CENTENARIANS: According to Japan’s Health Ministry, the country has surpassed 100,000 people aged 100 or older for the first time, reaching a record 107,677, nearly 8,000 more than last year, with women making up about 88%. Japan’s oldest living person is 114-year-old Fuyo Kishimoto, the last confirmed person born during the Meiji era, while the oldest man, 112-year-old Hikaru Katō, still exercises at his nursing home. When Japan began tracking centenarians in 1963, there were just 153.

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