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Whoops! Japan Misplaces 230,000 Centenarians

(Sept. 10) -- To lose one centenarian may be regarded as a misfortune, Oscar Wilde might have said, but to lose 230,000 looks like carelessness. Yet that's exactly what's happened in Japan, where officials today revealed that they are unable to locate hundreds of thousands of citizens supposedly aged 100 or over. The...

Tokyo's 'Oldest Woman' Hasn't Been Seen for Decades

(Aug. 3) -- Only days after finding out that Tokyo's "oldest man" had been dead for 30 years, Japanese officials got another surprise today: The capital's "oldest woman" hasn't been seen for decades. Fusa Furuya was said to be 113 and listed as living with her daughter, but when officials went to investigate they were...

Tokyo's Oldest Man Actually Dead for 30 Years

(July 30) -- When Sogen Kato's 111th birthday rolled around last week, he was hailed as the oldest living man in Tokyo. But there was just one problem with the claim on that title: He'd been lying dead in his bed for some 30 years, which is where city authorities found his mummified skeletal remains Wednesday. Social...

Background on Sogen Kato

was thought to have been Tokyo's oldest man until July 2010, when it was found that he had likely died in November 1978, aged 79, and his family had never announced his death in an attempt to preserve his record.

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