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" The government has a tradition of presenting Japanese centenarians with the gift of a sakazuki, a silver sake cup, in the year they turn 100, but there are so many people hitting the milestone these days that the state is looking for a cheaper alternative.
The commemorative cups presented to Japan's centenarians are valued at approximately $66 dollars.
On September 15, Japan's Seniors Day, the government sent the gift, as well as a signed letter from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, to the 30,379 people turning 100 this year at a cost of around $2 million.
In 1963, when Japan first recorded the country's centenarian population, there were just 153 people 100 and over in the country.
Five decades later, in 2015, there are 61,568 people that old, according to the Japanese Ministry of Labor, Health and Welfare.
www.newsweek.com
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If World War 2 never happened all those baked, boiled, and burned by American air raids with incendiaries would have survived and inspired those architects of the commemorative cup to drop the idea before it got started. Hard to say how many of those that got killed would have made it to 100 but the numbers in 1963 could have been significantly higher.
The commemorative cups presented to Japan's centenarians are valued at approximately $66 dollars.
On September 15, Japan's Seniors Day, the government sent the gift, as well as a signed letter from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, to the 30,379 people turning 100 this year at a cost of around $2 million.
In 1963, when Japan first recorded the country's centenarian population, there were just 153 people 100 and over in the country.
Five decades later, in 2015, there are 61,568 people that old, according to the Japanese Ministry of Labor, Health and Welfare.
Two Numbers: Japan Has More Than 60,000 Centenarians, and Tokyo Can’t Afford Their Gifts
Japan has a lot of really, really old people.
www.newsweek.com
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If World War 2 never happened all those baked, boiled, and burned by American air raids with incendiaries would have survived and inspired those architects of the commemorative cup to drop the idea before it got started. Hard to say how many of those that got killed would have made it to 100 but the numbers in 1963 could have been significantly higher.
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