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

[IkemenTommy]

It wasn't long before others got on the action too
72,000 stimulus payments went to dead people

WASHINGTON – A government investigator says 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each went to people who were either dead or in prison.

The Social Security Administration's inspector general said in a report Thursday that $18 million went to 72,000 people who were dead. The report estimates that a little more than half the payments were returned.

The report said $4.3 million went to a little more than 17,000 prison inmates.

The payments were part of the government's massive economic recovery package enacted in February 2009. Under the law, the $250 payments were sent to about 52 million Social Security recipients and federal retirees.

[Taro Toporific]

Man arrested after living with mother's corpse for 2 months
2010-Oct-26- The Mainichi Daily News | SAITAMA -- Police arrested a man on Oct. 26 after discovering the body of a woman thought to be his mother at their apartment the night before. The woman had apparently been dead for about two months.Yoshinori Tajima, 43, arrested on suspicion of abandoning a body, has reportedly admitted that the corpse is that of his 68-year-old mother and that he concealed her death out of fear that he would no longer receive her pension payments...more...

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[IkemenTommy]

Man arrested after living with mother's corpse for 2 months

That's gotta be the ultimate mazacon out there.

[McTojo]

Whereabouts of Tokyo's oldest person reported unknown

I would assume that a close eye is kept on the oldest living person in a major city, I could be wrong... but WTF?

Japan should just go on a man hunt for all the "oldest people" recorded as "alive" and find out WHO REALLY IS THE OLDEST ALIVE!

Could make a good TV show.

She's probably in my room!?

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

McTojo, your real name's not Yoshinori by any chance is it? You have been noticeably conspicuous in your absence the past 10 minutes...

[Christoff]

She's probably in my room!?

God damn it mom...

[IkemenTommy]

This is going to give a new set of ideas to whomever thinking about scamming the pension system
The Blotter: Woman pretended to be dead mom to get benefits

Woman pretended to be dead mom to get benefits

A D.C. woman admitted that she pretended to be her dead mother to collect more than $35,000 in federal retirement benefits.

Yolanda Powers, 31, will likely receive a sentence of six to 12 months of home detention under federal guidelines, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said Carol Powers died on April 1, 2008, shortly after retiring, and retirement payments were deposited into her account. Yolanda Powers continued to draw from the account and use the money for herself. Prosecutors said they have tape recordings of five calls to the credit union in which Powers represented herself to her mother.

[Taro Toporific]

Son suspected of keeping father's mummified corpse in wardrobe for over 5 years
Mainichi | 2011/01/06
....Mitsuo Sonoda's 55-year-old son, currently in hospital, has admitted to putting the body of his father -- who would now be 92 years old -- into the wardrobe.
"More than five years ago, during the winter, I came home and found my father in his bed. He wasn't moving. I left him there for a week, but he started to smell so I put him in the wardrobe," Sonoda's son was quoted as telling investigators.
Sonoda continued to receive pension payments after his probable death, leading authorities to move toward investigating his son for fraud in addition to abandonment of Sonoda's body..more..

[Mike Oxlong]

Gifu woman held for cashing dead parents' pension for 50 years

An 86-year-old Japanese woman who allegedly carried on cashing her parents’ pension for half a century after they died has been arrested, police in Ena, Gifu Prefecture, said Friday.

Mitsue Suzuki is believed to have collected more than 50 million yen over the last five decades for her parents, who both died in the 1960s.

The case is the latest in a series in Japan where welfare payments have continued long after someone’s death.

In some instances, claimants have lived with the corpse of their late relative in order to keep cashing the checks.

Suzuki’s case came to light when a pension agency official contacted the local authority in Gifu to ask after the health of a woman who was 110 and her 112-year-old husband.

But Gifu officials said both had long since died—and they had been given death certificates in the 1960s. Suzuki’s mother died in 1965 and her father passed away in 1968.

A Gifu prefectural police officer told AFP that Suzuki had been arrested on Thursday for allegedly receiving 2.6 million yen between April 2013 and December 2014.

Detectives are examining whether they can expand this time period to cover more alleged claims without falling foul of the statute of limitations.

Suzuki has denied any wrongdoing, the officer said.

With its aging population, Japan is no stranger to pension fraud. In 2010, police arrested a family in Tokyo for allegedly collecting 18 million yen in pension payments in the 30 years after the death of Sogen Kato.

Kato’s family did not report his death, and kept his mummified corpse at their home, saying he wanted to become a living Buddha.

Following the incident, the health ministry began a nationwide investigation into missing elderly people who were still receiving pensions.

Payments for around 1,700 missing pensioners have been suspended since the probe began.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crim ... r-50-years

[Samurai_Jerk]

When storing them at home just isn't an option ...

Body found in suitcase in Tokyo Station locker

A worker at Japan's Tokyo Station got an unpleasant shock after opening an abandoned suitcase that no one had claimed for a month — the decomposing body of an elderly woman inside.

[matsuki]

Isn't a month about the deadline for the storage of security cam footage? Perfect crime?

[kurogane]

Having read the The Guardian article it looks like an open and shut case, so I am sure they will get a handle on a suspect soon, though I have to say that something smells fishy about how long they took to realise that..........well,.............

I call dibs on left by family member to ensure continuing pension cheques

[Russell]

She finally came out of the closet...

[Taro Toporific]

Police release drawings of woman found in Tokyo Station locker
The frail woman is shown with varying hairstyles and a prominent tumor
By Tokyo Reporter on June 9, 2015
TOKYO (TR) --– In seeking more information on a woman whose body was found in a suitcase left in a locker at Tokyo Station, police on Tuesday released three drawings depicting her face and upper body...
...drawings show the frail woman with varying hairstyles and wearing different sweaters. All of the images feature a prominent tumor*, measuring approximately five millimeters across, on her forehead..age of 70 and 80 [sic] and measuring approximately 140 centimeters in height....
...Anyone with information on the case is encouraged to the call the Marunouchi Police Station at 03-3215-0577.

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*Most likely it's not a "tumor" but just a mole.

[Coligny]

I think you can list 200 match
for Toyohashi alone...

[matsuki]

So much for DNA?

[yanpa]

Silly her for not getting her DNA profile onto some sort of database before she was murdered.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Silly her for not getting her DNA profile onto some sort of database before she was murdered.

You mean the government doesn't secretly have a DB with everyone's DNA profile recorded? Then what are those annual health checks for?

[matsuki]

Meaning they can use her DNA that they now have to match to a relative they may have in their database and go from there. (not to mention use it to test against future suspects)

[Samurai_Jerk]

Meaning they can use her DNA that they now have to match to a relative they may have in their database and go from there. (not to mention use it to test against future suspects)

Yeah, I'm sure they didn't think of that.

[matsuki]

Meaning they can use her DNA that they now have to match to a relative they may have in their database and go from there. (not to mention use it to test against future suspects)

Yeah, I'm sure they didn't think of that.

TIJ, don't be too sure. Remember, this is the country where they arrest you with no charges or evidence for up to 21 days to either force a confession or go through your shit until they find something they can charge you with. "Crime fighting" for dummies...