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Blue Zones

Literal Translation

Geographic regions identified by researcher Dan Buettner as having unusually high concentrations of centenarians. The five zones include Okinawa (Japan). Okinawa's ikigai connection brought the concept to international attention and was subsequently misrepresented by the career-planning diagram.