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Welcome to the inquiry. I'm Charmaine Cozier.

Each week, one question, four experts and an answer.

It's Friday, January the 2nd. A baby is born in a small village on a southern

Japanese island. Her name is Kenny. The year is 1903.

That's the same year that the first ever Tour de France bicycle race set off from Paris.

It's also when the Ford Motor Company sold its first car.

In April this year, Kenneth and I could guide. She was 119 years old and had been

officially recognised as the oldest person in the world. Her final years were spent in a nursing

home, getting up at 6am solving math problems playing board games, eating chocolate and drinking coffee

and soda. There was a time when becoming a centenary and seemed impossible,

but it's not anymore. So this week we're asking, how do you live to be 100?

Part 1. Second Life.

Now it is not unusual to live me hundred years.

Dr. Heroko Akiyama specialises in gerontology or the study of aging.

She's a former vice president of the Science Council of Japan and professor Meritus at the University

of Tokyo. Japan is one of the frontrunners of rapid reaging societies. The average life

expectancy of Japanese women is now 80-80 years and 82 years for men. 29% of the Japanese population

by the one and four persons in Japan is age 65 and older. Other countries with average

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