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That's hardly new, the Japanese have known for quite some time that their records about the elderly are "a little bit" off.

by gngeal 14y ago

kyllo 14y ago
It's new to western media though. There are countless articles floating around about Japanese longevity, attempting to connect it to diet and exercise, oblivious of this pension fraud factor: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/30/japan-life-expectancy-factors http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/30/japan-life-expec... http://abcnews.go.com/Health/key-longevity-chatting-japans-centenarians/story?id=7382776 http://abcnews.go.com/Health/key-longevity-chatting-japans-c... http://observer.com/2010/08/revealed-the-secret-of-japanese-longevity/ http://observer.com/2010/08/revealed-the-secret-of-japanese-... http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2011/may2011_The-Little-Known-Longevity-Factor-in-the-Japanese-Diet_01.htm http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2011/may2011_The-Little-Known... And there have even been funded studies and papers published in medical journals about this!: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18924533 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18924533
- Samuel_Michon 14y ago
  Just because there's welfare fraud in Japan doesn't mean their life expectancy can't still be higher than in other countries. Also, let's not pretend there's no welfare fraud in other countries.
  - Spooky23 14y ago
    Tax fraud too. I rented a house in 2002 from a man who died in 1988.
- gngeal 14y ago
  "It's new to western media though." I'd be surprised, because western media is exactly from where I found out about this two years ago or so: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/world/asia/15japan.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/world/asia/15japan.html?_r... (...and a few others.)
smtddr 14y ago
Maybe not news to you, but in american media the "Super healthy asian food" image sells a lot of snake oil. In fact, there are people who think going to a restaurant/mall and getting asian food counts as a diet and/or eating healthy. They have no idea how different "westernized" asian food is to how it is(was?) made in their countries of origin - or that orange chicken, sweet & sour pork and chicken-fried rice might not be the best choice for eating healthy/dieting.

That's hardly new, the Japanese have known for quite some time that their records about the elderly are "a little bit" off.

by gngeal 14y ago

That's hardly new, the Japanese have known for quite some time that their records about the elderly are "a little bit" off.

kyllo 14y ago

It's new to western media though. There are countless articles floating around about Japanese longevity, attempting to connect it to diet and exercise, oblivious of this pension fraud factor: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/30/japan-life-expectancy-factors http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/30/japan-life-expec... http://abcnews.go.com/Health/key-longevity-chatting-japans-centenarians/story?id=7382776 http://abcnews.go.com/Health/key-longevity-chatting-japans-c... http://observer.com/2010/08/revealed-the-secret-of-japanese-longevity/ http://observer.com/2010/08/revealed-the-secret-of-japanese-... http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2011/may2011_The-Little-Known-Longevity-Factor-in-the-Japanese-Diet_01.htm http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2011/may2011_The-Little-Known... And there have even been funded studies and papers published in medical journals about this!: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18924533 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18924533

Samuel_Michon 14y ago
Just because there's welfare fraud in Japan doesn't mean their life expectancy can't still be higher than in other countries. Also, let's not pretend there's no welfare fraud in other countries.
- Spooky23 14y ago
  Tax fraud too. I rented a house in 2002 from a man who died in 1988.
gngeal 14y ago
"It's new to western media though." I'd be surprised, because western media is exactly from where I found out about this two years ago or so: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/world/asia/15japan.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/world/asia/15japan.html?_r... (...and a few others.)

smtddr 14y ago

Maybe not news to you, but in american media the "Super healthy asian food" image sells a lot of snake oil. In fact, there are people who think going to a restaurant/mall and getting asian food counts as a diet and/or eating healthy. They have no idea how different "westernized" asian food is to how it is(was?) made in their countries of origin - or that orange chicken, sweet & sour pork and chicken-fried rice might not be the best choice for eating healthy/dieting.