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(a) Japan national holidays includes 敬老の日 -- the third Monday of September --- Sept 21 in this year. (Of course, Japan's holidays on Monday follows in the footsteps of US.)
(b) Ahead of that, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC; 総務省, headed by 総務大臣) on Sept 20, 2015 released annual statistics on the senior citizens. Here are the highlights, based on estimate on Sept 15:
(i) Japanese 65 years old and older (males an females combined) are record high again: both the number (33.84 million) and percentage (26.7%; ie, higher than 1 in 4) of population.
(ii) For the first time, Japanese 80 years old and older reach more than 10 million -- to be exact, 10.02 million or 7.9% of the population. One out of ten females in Japan are 80 years old or older.
(c) Japanese English dictionary
敬老 【けいろう】 (n): "respect for the aged"
sōmu 総務 【そうむ】 (n): "general affairs; general business"
nichirande にちなんで 《に因んで》 (exp[ression]): "(See 因む) named after; associated with; connected with"
(d) Press release:
統計からみた我が国の高齢者（65 歳以上）－「敬老の日」にちなんで. 総務省, Sept 20, 2015 平成 27 年 (統計トピックス [topics] No 90),
http://www.stat.go.jp/data/topics/pdf/topics90.pdf
Just take a glance at Figure 1, whose right half is a projection.
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发表于 9-22-2015 15:48:42
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