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31% of Japanese elderly have no close friends: survey
Over 31 percent of Japanese aged 60 or older say they do not have any close friends, according to a government survey involving elderly populations in Japan, Germany, Sweden and the United States.
In the survey conducted by the Cabinet Office, 31.3 percent of the Japanese respondents said they do not have any close friends of any gender outside their families, a figure far higher than 14.2 percent among U.S. respondents, 13.5 percent among those from Germany and 9.9 percent among Swedish participants. Elderly people wait in an observation room after receiving COVID-19 vaccinations in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on April 12, 2021. The country s roughly 36 million people aged 65 or older are the second group to be inoculated against the novel coronavirus following health care workers. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo