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> Thousands of Japanese centenarians may have died decades ago > The justice ministry said the survey found that more than 77,000 people listed as still alive
by chewz 7y ago
> Thousands of Japanese centenarians may have died decades ago
> The justice ministry said the survey found that more than 77,000 people listed as still alive in local government records would have to be aged at least 120, and 884 would be 150 or older.
> The nationwide survey was launched in August after police discovered the mummified corpse of Sogen Kato, who at 111 was listed as Tokyo's oldest man, in his family home 32 years after his death.
> Kato's granddaughter has been arrested on suspicion of abandoning his body and receiving millions of yen in pension payments after his unreported death.
> Soon after came the discovery that a 113-year-old woman listed as Tokyo's oldest resident had not been seen by her family for more than 20 years. Welfare officials have yet to locate Fusa Furuya, who was last seen in about 1986.
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- glandium 7y ago> 884 would be 150 or older. It is kind of disturbing that these people are officially thought to be that age, but that nobody had been looking them up before despite them literally, albeit theoretically, being the oldest people alive on Earth!
- aitchnyu 7y agoWinston Churchill had special shipments of cigars from India with associated paperwork. The paperwork persisted a few decades after Indian independence and his death. Depending on data keeping, it will take a crackdown to find suspicious pensioners.