Japanese people

Compare that to the US, it was 79.

Experts put the long lives of Japanese down to several factors, including a healthy diet and an active lifestyle.

In Japan, diets largely consist of fish, vegetables, and rice, and that is thought to contribute to living longer.

Older people also regularly walk, use public transport, cycle, and stretch.

The total population is estimated to drop to 87 million by 2070.

That represents a 30% decline from its peak in 2008.

It's something Japanese authorities have called an existential crisis.

Pretty stark numbers, uh, in Japan.

Japan's oldest woman is a 114-year-old Fuyo Kishimoto of Kyoto, while its oldest man is 112-year-old Hikaru Kato of Kumamoto.

Experts say advances in medicine, along with factors such as a healthy diet and active lifestyles have helped Japanese people live longer.

But Japan is also facing a much bigger population challenge.

Around 30% of the country's population is already 65 or older, and that number is expected to grow to nearly 40% by 2070.

Like

that Japanese guy, there was a Japanese guy they found.

He was in the again, he was in the woods for years because he didn't know World War Two had ended.

This was like years and years.

Like, I don't know.

If there are some non-Japanese people in Japan, you know, there's a minority population in Japan of something that's not Japanese, it's totally reasonable for us to be like, hey, guys, don't be dicks to them.

Don't deprive them of their rights.

You know, treat them like equal people, you know.

But to ask the Japanese people to make their country majority Italian, well, there's no such thing as Japan anymore if they do that.

Now, this is obvious with any group of people who are a people like that.

America is a little bit different, but still you're drastically changing the whole nation.

Like if you just took a look at Tokyo and saw it was like 80% black, it's not that black is the wrong race to be.

What were you just telling me about how many people over 100?

Well, they've just announced that they've broken 107,000 people in Japan, Japanese, are now over the age of 100.

And that's just remarkable.

It's sort of quite scary if we think that's the way the trends are going, but it could have something to do with the superfoods that they're

eating.

So this is why we're talking about this.

A new Japanese superfood, Phil, have you tried it, Natto?

Yeah, slimy soya beans held together by strands of mucus.

And law enforcement is supposed to deal with criminal activity.

We don't need, yes, they may be Chinese, they may be Japanese, they may be Spanish, but it's not the nationality that matters.

It's the acts that they are engaging in.

and that is criminal activity so i read it and i just thought that maybe i'm missing something but what i've got i'm not quite sure how that is going to help us in avoiding the tipping point because i don't think we actually have grasped the fact that we face an ecological catastrophe and instead of doing something to change course we just seem to be walking towards the catastrophe this in my view is not going to be particularly helpful

We are comrades, brothers and sisters, and have no reason to fight.

Your enemies are not the Japanese people, but our militarism and so-called patriotism.

Patriotism and militarism are our mutual enemies.

In January 1905, throughout the United States, the Socialists held mass meetings to express their sympathy for their struggling comrades, the revolutionists of Russia, and more to the point, to furnish the sinews of war by collecting money and cabling it to the Russian leaders.

On the sea rim rose the smoke from the funnels of a hundred hostile vessels of war, all converging upon the helpless, undefended Golden Gate.

And not all undefended, for out through the Golden Gate moved the Energon, a tiny toy of white, rolling like a straw in the stiff sea on the bar where the strong ebb tide ran in the teeth of a summer sea breeze.

But the Japanese were cautious.

Their thirty and forty thousand ton battleships slowed down half a dozen miles offshore and maneuvered in ponderous evolutions, while tiny scout boats, lean six-funnel destroyers, ran in, cutting blackly the flashing sea like so many sharks.

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For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org Recording by Greg Giordano Historic Adventure Tales from American History by Rupert S. Holland Chapter 11 How the United States Made Friends with Japan One of the beautiful names that the Japanese have given to their country is Land of Great Peace, and at no time was this name more appropriate than in the middle of the 19th century.

Two hundred years before the last of the civil wars of Japan had come to an end, and the people, weary of years of bloodshed, had turned delightedly to peaceful ways.

The rice fields were replanted, artisans returned to their crafts, shops opened again, and poets and painters followed the call of their arts.

What startled the men in the fields, the people in the village, and the boatmen in the harbor was a fleet of vessels coming to anchor in the bay of Doh.

These monsters, with their sails furled, although they were heading against the wind, were shooting tongues of smoke from their great black throats.

See the fire vessels, cried the Japanese to each other.

When the peasants asked the priests where the monsters came from, the wise men answered that they were the fire vessels of the barbarians who lived in the west.

But it was when the suit was reinterpreted.

It was picked up by the Japanese and you got a bunch of Vietnamese nationalists going to Japan and they're like, I like that suit.

That's pretty cool.

And that suit is straight.