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December 12, 2008

And We Don't Care About The Young Folks
Posted by Adam Blickstein

With the inevitable aging of America (by 2030, the population of Americans over 65 is projected to double from 35 million to 71.5 million and represent nearly 20 percent of the total U.S. population.), I wonder if the elderly in America will be as proactive as our older compatriots in Japan:

As Japanese live longer and longer, and the number of centenarians increases to once unimaginable levels, a new elite class is emerging – the Super Elderlies or Genkinarians. In the arts, medicine, scholarship, and most strikingly of all, in sport, a small number of extremely old Japanese are not only keeping their heads above water, but surging forward.

The head of one of Tokyo’s most famous hospitals, St Luke’s, is 97-year old Shigeaki Hinohara...The world’s oldest television news reader is a 105-year old lady named Shino Mori...with two younger colleagues of 92 and 84...Japan has a 101-year old dancer..who still performs from time to time in a wheelchair. In a different artistic genre, there is Shigeo Tokuda, the 73-year old male star of over 100 pornographic films, including titles such as Maniac Training of Lolitas and Forbidden Elderly Care. The porn business’s oldest talent, 90-year old Yoshiaki Yasuda, had to retire a few years ago after a career-wrecking back injury. All of these people, in their different ways, are exceptional – but in 21st century Japan the fact of living to 100 is no longer the miracle that it used to be.

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