Looks good for his Age

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TOKYO —

A pension association has filed a criminal complaint against the family of a Tokyo man found dead at his home last month on suspicion of fraudulently receiving pension payments he would have been entitled to as a widower, investigative sources said Tuesday.

The complaint, filed by the Japan Mutual Aid Association of Public School Teachers, has prompted the Tokyo police to investigate if the family of Sogen Kato, who would be 111 if still alive, illegally received the pension money payable to his late wife, a former teacher, by giving the appearance that he was still alive, the sources said.

After retreating to his room around 30 years ago, Kato refused to have meals and water, and what appeared to be his mummified remains were found in July at his home in Tokyo’s Adachi Ward. He appeared to have died some time around the end of 1978, according to the sources.

His wife, meanwhile, died in September 2004 at the age of 101, and since then, a total of 9.45 million yen in pension payments have been deposited into his bank account, of which some 6 million yen has already been withdrawn.

The discovery of the mummified body drew attention to the fact hundreds of elderly people in Japan have gone missing.

THE AUTHORITIES ARE NOW LOOKING A OVER 200 MORE PERSONS OVER THE AGE OF 100 YEARS OF AGE :dry: :woohoo: