In my earlier post about the news of the second oldest resident of Japan found dead since several decades in a mummified state (post here) I was basically making a joke about the long life expectancy of Japan, but it seems like I might have been a bit closer to the mark than I originally intended...After this revelation, it seems like the authorities decided to look into the situation of the currently oldest person in Tokyo, clocking in at a good 113 years of age... But, unfortunately the elderly lady has not been located and no one seem to have seen her in the last couple of decades and the people in the neighborhood seems to think she's dead (news in Japanese here). She might be a living dead, but at least it seems like she's not lifting her retirement money by proxy...
As some other regions in Japan suddenly feel the need to look into the whereabouts of their own oldest residents it seems like a lot of them are very hard to locate...
(Bonus points to anyone who know "who" is in the picture)
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Curses, I was just about to write a post on the same subject.
> Bonus points to anyone who know "who" is in the picture)
Elena Milagro "Helen" de Hoyos. How do I claim my prize?
(Tip: rename the Wikipedia file before uploading ;) ).
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Oh, you silly salaryman.
This item renews my faith in the Japanese system of registration by koseki tohon.
(Similar things happen in the UK, actually.)
Is it Michael Jackson!?!?
So all that fish and rice wasn't good for us after all, I feel so cheated!
That lady is so old that she hardly looks Japanese anymore.
I didn't realize those news were so big, but it's actually on NHK World's news right now that I'm watching. Interesting.
Are they trying to hide how they get so old?
Penguin and Zero - Well, it was actually a trick question! I think that Corinne comes closest with Michael Jackson since there aren't many non artificial parts of De Hoyos left. Now, I just wonder if that plastic tube story was true or not...
Rmilner - Yep, and now the oldest man in Japan (119) seem to not be accounted for and the news say that 74 100+ elderly can't be located...
Corinne - Yep, I think you have another good argument to get back into the marshmallows with full force!
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