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Centenarians top 70,000 in Japan's graying population
Original source: english.kyodonews.net
Women centenarians vastly outnumber the men, accounting for 88.1 percent of the total 71,238.
Kane Tanaka, a 116-year-old resident of Fukuoka, is the oldest Japanese.
Chitetsu Watanabe, a 112-year-old resident of Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture, is the oldest Japanese man.
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