Japanese people seem to keep living longer and longer, with a boy born last year now expected to live more than eight decades, according to the latest government data.
 
Figures on life expectancies released Thursday by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare show that a boy born in 2013 will likely to live until he is 80.21 years old. It is the first time that the lifespan of a newborn Japanese boy is expected to surpass 80 years, increasing 0.27 years from 2012. A Japanese girl born in 2013 is expected to live 86.61 years, an increase of 0.2 years from the year before.


 
The latest figures are new records for both genders and are among the highest in the world, the ministry said. A report by the World Health Organization released in May said Japanese women were the world’s longest-lived, and Japanese men were the eighth-longest-lived. The global average for 2012 was 73 years for women and 68 years for men, according to the WHO.

(source & pictures : wsj.com)