Today is one of the national holidays called keiro no hi (敬老の日), Respect-for-the-Aged Day. This day was used to be on September 15 until 2002, but it has been moved to the 3rd Monday of September since 2003 to have a long weekend.
Keiro no hi was established in 1966. At that time the average life expectancy of Japanese men was 68 years old and of women was 73 years old. Now it is 79 and 86 respectively.
There are 28,980,000 senior citizens who are over 65 years old, which is 800,000 more than last year, and the percentage among all the population is 22.7%.
A quarter of Japanese women are over 65 years old.
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