Tokyo: The oldest woman is lost! (or rotting in a bedroom somewhere)

[Yokohammer]

They got a 186 year old from Shiga today. What are the bet of someone topping 200?

Ha!
I bet the bookies are making a fortune on this!

[IparryU]

Ha!
I bet the bookies are making a fortune on this!

186

WTF?!?!

no one did a drop in to see if jiichan or baachan was alive?

[Ganma]

186

WTF?!?!

no one did a drop in to see if jiichan or baachan was alive?

They didn't care. They were too busy living off the pension money ... for 2 generations!:rofl:

[IkemenTommy]

[IparryU]

They need to go after more of these thugs.

ya no shit. japan having the the one of the "longest life spans" BS is about to be world wide headline news after their numbers get severely reduced when the stats are redone...

you gotta figure, now many missing people over 100, if half of them are dead, that would drop the numbers down a lot.

186 yo with out the gov checking up? that person should be monitored by Dr.s daily to find out why they didn't croak. but that person dead anyway, so funny to read about the govt losing hella old people...

[IkemenTommy]

What are the bet of someone topping 200?

You got it!

This is becoming more of a comedy than anything else. Let's see if they can find a geezer when Jesus walked the earth.


Oh wait.. almost forgot about Greji

[Mike Oxlong]

The scandal should be incompetent public servants are leading the charge to bankrupt the pension fund.

[Samurai_Jerk]

So how long till they find a family actually collecting benefits for a person overr 150 years old?

[Ganma]

Here's another one in this never ending story. At this rate they'll be arresting half the country!

Skeleton of '102-year-old' woman found in home of missing daughter

(Mainichi Japan) August 25, 2010IWAKI, Fukushima -- The skeletal remains of a woman who would have been 102 years old have been discovered in the home of her daughter here by police.

The woman, Michi Watanabe, was registered as living together with her 70-year-old daughter on the first floor of a public housing residence in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture. When the city government dispatched employees to confirm the whereabouts of elderly residents, the daughter had refused to allow them to meet her mother. The city later became unable to contact the daughter and consulted with prefectural police, who searched the home and reportedly found the remains of Watanabe wrapped in a futon in a closet.

[GomiGirl]

I wonder how this is going to affect the stats (myth) of the longevity of the Japanese population?

Are people hiding their dead elders due to the cost of funerals or the scamming of their nenkin payments?

[IkemenTommy]

Are people hiding their dead elders due to the cost of funerals or the scamming of their nenkin payments?

Or probably some sick necrophiliac obsession.

[Ganma]

Are people hiding their dead elders due to the cost of funerals or the scamming of their nenkin payments?

Inheritance tax is high here, so aside from pocketing baba and jiji's pension they get to hold on to their house. I don't blame them in a way. If the government would stop stealing money from the dead this kind of thing might not happen.

[Greji]

Inheritance tax is high here, so aside from pocketing baba and jiji's pension they get to hold on to their house. I don't blame them in a way. If the government would stop stealing money from the dead this kind of thing might not happen.

Damn, don't start me on inheritance tax. Not only is high here, it is stupid to begin with to require people to give the greatest part of everything they have earned for themselves during their life, not to their family, but to someone else (through the government) because it is "the right thing to do." Bull shit! Threat jack terminated. Back to missing codgers......

[Ganma]

[IparryU]

[Ganma]

[Taro Toporific]

... And another.

Dead body found in sack in Kumamoto Prefecture
KUMAMOTO, Japan, Sept. 6 (AP) - (Kyodo)
A dead body was found Sunday evening in a sack on the grounds of a house in Tamana, Kumamoto Prefecture and was identified Monday as that of Akira Higashi who lived at the house and has been missing for about a month, the police said.
The partially decomposed body appeared to be that of a man who died about a month ago, and fingerprints confirmed it
A dead body was found Sunday evening in a sack on the grounds of a house in Tamana, Kumamoto Prefecture and was identified Monday as that of Akira Higashi who lived at the house and has been missing for about a month, the police said. The partially decomposed body appeared to be that of a man who died about a month ago, and fingerprints confirmed it as of the 78-year- old, the police said...more....

[Ganma]

This country is becoming a veritable house of horrors with a skeleton at every turn.

[Ganma]

Speaking of houses of horror, I just saw this article. ...it looks like all those skeletons in the closet are being put to good use after all.


As temperatures soar, Japanese turn to ghost houses

(Reuters Life!) -
With Japan suffering its worst heatwave since records began in 1898, haunted houses or "obake yashiki" are doing a roaring trade as the traditional summertime venues to cool off.

Ghost houses are set up especially for the summer in amusements parks in Japan with the tradition linked to Japanese Buddhism which views August as the time when ancestral spirits may return for a visit and Japanese visit their elders' graves.

This year ghost houses have reported dramatic increases in visitor numbers as they tap into the Japanese tradition of also telling scary stories to send shivers down people's spines and cool them down....

[IparryU]

Speaking of houses of horror, I just saw this article. ...it looks like all those skeletons in the closet are being put to good use after all.


As temperatures soar, Japanese turn to ghost houses

I've been seeing these adds a lot recently... that is why they are 5k a tour... real dead bodies...

[Bucky]

[Typhoon]

JT: Now where did we misplace them?

The Justice Ministry announced Friday that the existence of 234,354 centenarians listed as "alive" in family registries can't be confirmed.

The finding was reached after the ministry decided to carry out a nationwide survey on centenarians to get to the bottom of a growing pension fraud scandal that could challenge Japan's long-engrained reputation for longevity.

If alive, 77,118 of them would be 120 years old or older and 884 would be at least 150, tracing their origins to the Edo Period. That's a lot bigger than the 800 or so elderly listed as 85 or older who the welfare ministry said last month might be illegally receiving pension money.

About 0.2% of the population. Impressive. I wonder if the loss of these large outliers will cause a perceptible shift in the average life expectancy.

[2triky]

What kind of penalties will these folks get for bilking the nenkin system?

Meanwhile in Oregon

80 year old in prison...I'm sure that'll work out well for him.

[Taro Toporific]

Skeletal remains of woman recorded as living at 79 found in daughters' home in Aichi:clap:
Mainichi News | 2010sept18
TOYOKAWA, Aichi -- The skeletal remains of a woman who was recorded as alive at 79 years of age have been discovered at a residence here, police said.
The remains are believed to be of a woman named Sue Sano. Two women -- aged 56 and 48 -- who live in the house reportedly told investigators that remains were of their mother.
According to investigators, at around 3 p.m. on Sept. 17, police received a call from the Toyokawa Municipal Government, saying they had tried to deliver a gift of money to Sano -- given to elderly residents to celebrate their longevity -- but her family had refused to let a city worker meet with Sano in person. About an hour later, police visited the woman's residence and found the skeleton lying under a futon mattress.
More....

[IparryU]

According to investigators, at around 3 p.m. on Sept. 17, police received a call from the Toyokawa Municipal Government, saying they had tried to deliver a gift of money to Sano -- given to elderly residents to celebrate their longevity -- but her family had refused to let a city worker meet with Sano in person. About an hour later, police visited the woman's residence and found the skeleton lying under a futon mattress.
More....

that must be the quickest police work in japan on record that did not involve a dirty gaijin on a bicycle!

Great work J-Police! (no sarcasam) and please keep it up!

notice how the bold says UNDER A FUTON MATTRESS... futons get laid out on the floor... so the daughter(s) saw mom dead on the floor and they just threw a fuckin futon over her... I love you mom....

[Taro Toporific]

[floatl][/floatl]Man left wife's body on balcony for 3 months because reporting death 'too bothersome'
Mainichi Japan -- September 20, 2010
KATSURAGI, Nara ... An elderly man held for leaving his wife's body on their balcony for three months after her death...
...."She became unable to walk after falling down in early June. I found her dead when I brought food to her on about June 20. It'd be too bothersome to go through the procedure for reporting her death to the municipal government," he was quoted as telling investigators....
<snip>
...Officers found the victim's decomposed body on a blue plastic sheet laid on the balcony after another resident of the same apartment complex reported to police on Sept. 19 that Yasuda's room was giving off an offensive smell.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Does being listed as living on the family register also mean you get counted in the census or some other official record of the population?

[Mulboyne]

[Dragonette]

[Samurai_Jerk]

Fraud suspected as dead city retirees continue to collect pension checks

Even death didn't keep 14 city retirees from continuing to "collect" their pension checks through suspected fraud, City Controller John Liu reported Monday.

The cashers of the dead-retirees' checks made off with a total of $459,970, Liu said at a press conference with Department of Investigation Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn.

She'll now determine if criminal prosecution is warranted. ..............