{"id":5337,"date":"2010-09-10T12:50:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T16:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5337"},"modified":"2010-09-10T10:54:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T14:54:52","slug":"japan-now-admits-it-cant-find-over-230000-elderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/09\/10\/japan-now-admits-it-cant-find-over-230000-elderly\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan now admits it can&#8217;t find over 230,000 elderly citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that post from a while back about some Japanese families <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/08\/03\/japans-centenarians-are-going-missing\/\" target=\"_blank\">concealing the death of elderly relatives<\/a> to scam their pensions? It appears to be a much more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-pacific-11258071?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">widespread problem<\/a> than they first thought:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>An audit of family registries was launched last month after the remains of the man thought to be Tokyo&#8217;s oldest were found at his family home.<\/p>\n<p>Relatives are accused of fraudulently receiving his pension for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have found that hundreds of the missing would be at least 150 years old if still alive.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that post from a while back about some Japanese families concealing the death of elderly relatives to scam their pensions? It appears to be a much more widespread problem than they first thought: More than 230,000 elderly people in Japan who are listed as being aged 100 or over are unaccounted for, officials said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,66,24],"tags":[598,319,194],"class_list":["post-5337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-health-science","category-japan","tag-aging","tag-demographics","tag-fraud"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1o5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5339,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337\/revisions\/5339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}