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Garm
September 10th, 2010, 11:48 PM
More than 230,000 elderly people in Japan who are listed as being aged 100 or over are unaccounted for, officials said following a nationwide inquiry.

An audit of family registries was launched last month after the remains of the man thought to be Tokyo's oldest were found at his family home


Maybe it's one of those Japanese cultural things where you lose face if a relative dies

Or one of the worlds biggest welfare scams