Number of elderly reaches record 36.17 mil. in Japan

The number of Japanese aged 65 and older totaled a record-high 36.17 million as of this month, up 300,000 from a year earlier, government data showed Sunday.The elderly accounted for 28.7 percent of Japan's population, up 0.3 point, also hitting a record, according to the data by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications prior to Monday's Respect for the Aged Day holiday.The ratio of seniors remained well above the 23.3 percent in Italy, the second most aged society, followed by 22.8 percent in Portugal.The National Institute of Population and Social Security Research projects tha…READ FULL ARTICLE