A Japanese tanker spilled about 5,3-million litres of crude oil in the eastern Indian Ocean near the Nicobar islands following a collision with a cargo ship, the tanker’s operator announced on Tuesday. Japan’s Kyodo news service said the spill may have been the largest to date involving a Japanese tanker.
Japan boasts both the world’s longest average life expectancy — 81,9 years — and has 23Â 000 people aged 100 or more. The United States is still ahead, but what’s surprising in Japan’s case is that its centenarian population has doubled in just five years, and will reach nearly one million — the world’s largest — by 2050, according to United Nations projections.