(さい)

years old

(いじょう)

more than; beyond this

(ひと)

person / people

(じんこう)

population

(やく)

approximately, about

(わり)

ten percent, proportion

(くがつ)

September

(だい)

ordinal prefix (No. ~, the ~th)

(げつようび)

Monday

(けいろうのひ)

Respect for the Aged Day (national holiday)

(おとしより)

elderly person

(たいせつ)

important

(ながい)

long

(いきる)

to live

(おいわい)

celebration

(ひ)

day

(くに)

country; the government

(にほん)

Japan

(こうれいしゃ)

elderly person

(かず)

number, count

(はっぴょう)

announcement

(ぐらい)

about, approximately

(わりあい)

ratio, rate, percentage

(これから)

from now on

(たかい)

expensive; high

(かんがえる)

to think; to consider

(さいきん)

recently

(すぎる)

to pass (time), to exceed

(はたらく)

to work

(ふえる)

to increase; to grow

(みせ)

shop, store

(こうじょう)

factory

(のうぎょう)

agriculture

(いろいろ)

various

(しごと)

work, job

(かいしゃ)

company

(なか)

inside

(しくみ)

structure, system, mechanism

(つくる)

to make

(ところ)

place

polite copula / is, am, are

Describes states such as the mother panda being healthy and the baby being small.

decide on / make it X

Indicates choice or theme. Here makes SF and LGBTQ the themes.

nominalizer (the act of ~)

Turns verbs into nouns — changing one's awareness (意識を変えること), not over-buying (買いすぎないこと), and using leftovers well (使うこと).

in accordance with / in time with

Means 'matching/syncing with'. Here fireworks are launched in sync with music.

is doing, has been doing (ongoing state/action)

Expresses a continuing action or resulting state. Formed with て-form + いる/います. Can describe an action in progress or a state that continues from a past change.

to become

Expresses change of state — prices becoming higher, more buyers, the economy getting better.

among / out of

Used to express a portion of a whole — out of people who bought condos, 3.0% were from overseas.

that means ~ / in other words

Restates the previous fact in simpler terms: 'about 30% of the population' means about three in every ten people.

is considered to be ~

Passive form expressing general consensus.

even if; even though

Used to express concession or hypothetical situation.

until / as far as

Indicates an end point in space or time. Here it expresses how far the balls flew.

potential form: can do ~

使う becomes 使える to say the phones can still be used: 停電のときでも使えます.

65歳以上の人が人口の約3割に

People aged 65 and over now make up about 30% of the population

9月の第3月曜日は「敬老の日」です。

The third Monday of September is Respect for the Aged Day.

お年寄りを大切にして、長く生きることをお祝いする日です。

It is a day to cherish elderly people and celebrate long lives.

この日に合わせて、国は日本の高齢者の数を発表しています。

To coincide with this day, the government announces the number of elderly people in Japan.

65歳以上の人は、人口の約3割になりました。

People aged 65 and over have become about 30% of the population.

10人のうち、3人ぐらいが65歳以上ということです。

That means about three out of every ten people are 65 or older.

この割合は、これからも高くなると考えられています。

This proportion is expected to keep rising.

最近は、65歳を過ぎても働く人が増えています。

Recently, more and more people keep working even after turning 65.

店や工場、農業など、いろいろな仕事で高齢者が働いています。

Elderly people are working in all kinds of jobs, such as in shops, factories and farming.

会社の中には、70歳まで働ける仕組みを作るところもあります。

Some companies are even creating systems that let people work until age 70.