International Day of Older persons in Japan

TOKYO , JAPAN - OCTOBER 1 : A young man runs past an elderly couple taking a health walk early in the morning on October 1, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. As the world celebrates the day of older persons, Japan is reputed to have the longest life expectancy in the world but which birth rate is in permanent decline. Japanese society is getting old and official statistics predict that the number of elderly people of those 65 and older in Japan will increase and is expected to reach 34.8% by 2040, while this segment of the population is estimated at 36.25 million this year, representing 29.3% of the country's total population. (Photo by David Mareuil/Anadolu via Getty Images)