You’d think people would keep better records of this sort of thing, but not.  Apparently, in Japan, there’s apparently been a massive fraud ring of people claiming that their relatives are living to be 100 years old or older, but when authorities go to look for said centenarians, they’re not able to find them.  Some 230,000 centenarians in Japan have come up missing for one reason or another.  Are they dead?  Did they move?  Did they ever exist?

No one’s really sure.  Apparently, during World War II, lots of records got destroyed and, before that, records kept were kind of spotty.  Some of the missing 100-year-olds are as old as 150, which makes me think that they’re missing because they’re 6 feet underground somewhere.  After Tokyo’s oldest man was revealed to be a long-dead mummy, it’s no wonder that Japan has decided to start tracking these people down and keeping better tabs on them.

Maybe Tokyo just got to be too high-tech for them, and they went off to lead a simpler country life in some kind of old-folks farm.

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