Seniors in Japan accounted for 28.4 percent of the country's total population in 2018, which hit a record high, the Japanese Times cited the government data as saying on Sunday. /VCG Photo

The number of people aged 65 or above in Japan has reached 35.88 million, increasing 320,000 from a year earlier, according to the data from the Internal Affairs and Communication Ministry of Japan. Today, Japan ranks top by senior population, followed by Italy and Portugal. /VCG Photo

The elderly came out on Monday, a day honoring the country's elderly citizens to join an exercise event held in Tokyo. They were organized to do exercise with wooden dumbbells. /VCG Photo

The country's institute for the population research projected that the number of elders would make up 30 percent of the total population in 2025. /VCG Photo