TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — More than 28 percent of Japan’s population is now officially classified as elderly according to government data, the highest rate in the world as the first wave of postwar baby boomers enter old age. Those aged 65 or older now make up a record 35.6 million, or 28.1 percent of the total population, the government said Sunday. The proportion is the highest by far in the world, ahead of 23.3 percent […]