LIFE JAPAN ELDERLY

Senior citizens over 60 years of age pose with Walt Disney characters, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, during a dance party at Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, east of Tokyo September 15, 2003. The Home Affairs Ministry said 19 percent of the country's 127 million people were aged 65 or older as of Monday, the national holiday designated in Japan as "Respect for the Aged Day". REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao