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I used to joke that the government should have a celebration of centenarians and see how many of them actually show up. IIRC a version of this happened a while

I used to joke that the government should have a celebration of centenarians and see how many of them actually show up. IIRC a version of this happened a while back in Japan; the mayor of a town decided to visit some of the oldest residents, only to find that none of them were still alive.

Animats 4y ago
That turned into a sizable pension fraud scandal in Japan.[1][2] [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/world/asia/15japan.html https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/world/asia/15japan.html [2] https://www.economist.com/banyan/2010/08/06/the-case-of-the-missing-methuselahs https://www.economist.com/banyan/2010/08/06/the-case-of-the-...