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Asia-Pacific / Japan · Science & Health

Japan's centenarian population exceeds 100,000 for first time

Rank
Ran
4d
Updated
15d ago
Final
Outlets
33
Regions
5
Countries
27
Languages
8

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Where it travelled

The 27 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

31%15%27%15%

  • Africa 3 outlets · 3 countries · 9%
  • Americas 10 outlets · 8 countries · 31%
  • Asia-Pacific 5 outlets · 3 countries · 15%
  • Europe 9 outlets · 8 countries · 27%
  • Middle East 5 outlets · 5 countries · 15%
  • International 1 outlet · 3%

The figures

Coverage
33 outlets in 27 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 33 outlets, 4 state-owned, 3 public-service, 26 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 3: Egypt, Ghana, South Africa. Americas 8: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru. Asia-Pacific 3: Indonesia, Japan, Vietnam. Europe 8: Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 5: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Arabic, German, English, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian.
Timeline
Earliest article The Mainichi, 15 Sept 2026, 04:20 UTC. First seen 15 Sept 2026, 08:01 UTC. Last seen 20 Sept 2026, 03:30 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Asia-Pacific, Japan. Topic Science & health. Hard news Not judged. This story predates the hard-news rule (methodology 3.0). Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
6.53, at the end of the last day measured. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
15 Sept 2026 30 19.84 22 17 – – 1.0
16 Sept 2026 77 12.78 29 23 – – 1.2
17 Sept 2026 73 15.96 31 25 – – 1.2
18 Sept 2026 115 11.00 32 26 – – 1.3
19 Sept 2026 136 7.13 33 27 – – 1.4
20 Sept 2026 158 6.53 33 27 1 1 1.4 → 2.0

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Started 15 Sept, 08:01 UTC · Updated 20 Sept, 03:30 UTC

Covered by 33 outlets

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Africa 3 outlets

  • Egypt Independent Egypt
  • MyJoyOnline Ghana
  • TimesLIVE South Africa

Americas 10 outlets

  • Clarín Argentina
  • CTV News Canada
  • El Comercio Peru
  • El Espectador Colombia
  • El Universal Mexico
  • Estadão Brazil
  • G1 Brazil
  • Infobae Argentina
  • La Tercera Chile
  • Prensa Libre Guatemala

Asia-Pacific 5 outlets

  • NHK World Japan
  • Tempo Indonesia
  • The Japan Times Japan
  • The Mainichi Japan
  • VnExpress International Vietnam

Europe 9 outlets

  • Der Spiegel Germany
  • Digi24 Romania
  • El Mundo Spain
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Germany
  • N1 Serbia
  • Neue Zürcher Zeitung Switzerland
  • NOS Netherlands
  • The Independent United Kingdom
  • VRT NWS Belgium

Middle East 5 outlets

  • Al Jazeera Qatar
  • Anadolu Agency Turkey
  • Asharq Al-Awsat Saudi Arabia
  • SANA Syria
  • Sky News Arabia United Arab Emirates

International 1 outlet

  • INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed International

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