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Want to live to 100? Japan may hold some clues

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Japan has surpassed 100,000 people aged 100 or older for the first time, with the number of centenarians rising for a 56th consecutive year to 107,677. Women account for 88 per cent of them. But what is behind Japan’s extraordinary longevity, and do we really want to live beyond 100?

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