“It’s now critical!”, says Governor Denny of Okinawa’s obesity rate, while targeting a reduction to 25% with the third plan to resurrect the ‘prefecture of longevity’. (28mr24)

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On 26 March, Okinawa Prefecture held its ‘Headquarters for Advancement in Resurrecting Okinawa as the Healthy Long Life Prefecture’ (chair: Governor Denny Tamaki) at the Prefectural Office.

The meeting confirmed its final proposal for the third ‘Okinawa Health 21’ plan for 2024-35 to maintain its encouragement of the health of the prefecture’s people.


The prefecture’s ranking nation-wide in average life expectancy is continuing its decline and is now at 43rd for men and 16th for women.


In view of this, regarding Okinawa’s resurrection as the ‘long life prefecture’, Governor Tamaki stated, “It’s now critical. This third plan has become extremely important.”


The second plan’s final evaluation was reported at the meeting. 84 items were targeted for improvement or a tendency toward improvement. However, a total of 35 of the items were judged ‘unchanged’ or ‘worse’, such as the targets for metabolic syndrome, high blood pressure, and  generational lifestyle issues of the working generation.


Lifestyle related diseases, such as heart disease and cerebrovascular disease, accounted for the primary causes of death in the prefecture. Moreover, the high rate of abnormal findings in periodic employment health checks is the worst in the nation.


In the third plan, 74 items are due to be targeted. The headquarters decided to target a reduction in obesity to 25%, through behavior modification in eating habits and environmental management to make exercise easier,  for obesity in those aged between 20 and 60 (currently 46% for men and 31.7% for women).


The headquarters also confirmed that, in order to have prefectural measures  penetrate into the working generation, enterprises and offices that implement health management for their employees will be increased. Furthermore, the Prefectural Physicians Association,  the Okinawa Industrial Mutual Assistance Insurance Center, and others will assist businesses in implementation.



Original Japanese article: Ryukyu Shimpo, published Wednesday 27 March 2024 at 20:00. Byline: Takuya Kayo.   https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/a8f34edaf7031004a56cfc31e6dedbb42e1c63a3


Denny in the News: news about Governor Denny Tamaki.


Denny Tamaki is the governor of Okinawa Prefecture in Japan. Although Okinawa is important as an international tourist destination and a key element in strategic US Military Forces, its governor receives very little coverage in the Japanese press and almost none in the English language media. 


This blog hopes to  translate one news article a day on the governor.  It is unsponsored and unauthorized. The translator simply hopes to improve his skills and perhaps give the governor an English speaking audience. 


Any suggestion on improving my translation will be gratefully accepted. However, please leave political comments for another forum.


Where they occur, words and phrases in Ryukyuan (the Okinawan language) are rendered in italics and translated in parentheses. Names  whose readings are uncertain are rendered as Name (=Kanji?) as in Nagayuki (=長行?). Any corrections in such instances would be gratefully appreciated.

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