Re:Tokyo's 'oldest man' had been dead for 30 years (2010)
by appplication on Thursday January 11, 2024 @09:55AM
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Humans are quite effective at finding and optimizing/exploiting pretty much any incentive.
Re:Tokyo's 'oldest man' had been dead for 30 years (2010)
by nxobject on Thursday January 11, 2024 @03:32PM
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Oh yes, my other favorite quote:
> Jeff Kingston, the director of Asian studies at the Japan Campus of Temple University, said, "It is a humanising phenomenon—the Japanese are traditionally seen as sober, law-abiding people—when they are in fact scamsters like the rest of us. [The story of the missing centenarians] holds up a mirror to society and reflects realities that many in Japan do not want to accept."
> “Prosecutors alleged that Michiko Kato, 81, daughter, and Tokimi Kato, 53, his granddaughter, fraudulently received about ¥9,500,000 ($117,939; £72,030) of pension money.[4][7] In addition, after Kato's wife died in 2004 at the age of 101, ¥9,450,000 ($117,318; £71,651) from a survivor's mutual pension was deposited into Kato's bank account between October 2004 and June 2010. Approximately ¥6,050,000 ($75,108; £45,872) was withdrawn before his body was discovered. Kato was likely paid a senior welfare benefit from the time he turned 70, which the family may also have used to their advantage.”
This explains why.