It should be remembered that in the late 1940s Japanese life expectancy at birth was eleven years shorter than in the United States.

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In advance of the speech, his administration put out some of what it considered to be the highlights of where the city is, such as record high life expectancy and record number of tourists.

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The government has said that it intends to raise the pension age if life expectancy keeps increasing, so the sky could be the limit in theory!

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