Nearly 200 of Japan's oldest citizens 'missing'

Nearly 200 of Japan's oldest citizens 'missing'

Nearly 200 of Japan's oldest citizens 'missing'
Local Japanese News In English

Nearly 200 Japanese centenarians are missing, officials said Thursday, with the total likely to rise amid a nationwide search after the discovery of the 30-year-old corpse of a man registered as aged 111. In the western city of Kobe alone, the whereabouts of 105 out of 847 centenarians were unknown as of the end of July, a city official said. Those unaccounted-for include people who could be older than the current officially recognised oldest woman in Japan, 113-year-old Chiyono Hasegawa, who lives in the southern Saga prefecture. They include one supposedly 125-year-old woman. (AFP)
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