Tokyo's oldest person is missing
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August 4, 2010, Wednesday
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A 113-YEAR-OLD woman listed as Tokyo's oldest person is missing, officials said yesterday, days after the city's oldest listed man was found dead and mummified.
Fusa Furuya, born in July 1897, does not live at the address where she is registered and her whereabouts are unknown, Tokyo Suginami ward official Hiroshi Sugimoto said.
Her disappearance surfaced just days after the shocking discovery last week of the mummified body of the man Tokyo officials thought was the city's oldest living male.
Officials said they had not personally contacted the two people for decades despite listing them as the city's longest-living. They learned of the man's death and the woman's disappearance while updating records ahead of a holiday honoring the elderly next month.
Officials visited Furuya's apartment last Friday, but her 79-year-old daughter said she has never lived there.
The daughter, whose name was not disclosed, told officials she was not aware of her mother's registration at that address and said she thought her mother was just outside Tokyo with her younger brother, with whom she has lost touch.
But when officials checked that address they found a vacant lot.
Officials are also looking for a 106-year-old man who is missing in Nagoya, Kyodo News agency reported.
Japan has 40,399 people aged 100 or older, including 4,800 in Tokyo, according to an annual health ministry report last year marking a September 21 holiday honoring the elderly. Each centenarian receives a letter and a gift.
In the earlier case, police are investigating the family of Sogen Kato on suspicion of abandonment and swindling his pension money. Once listed as being 111 years old, he is now believed to have died 32 years ago, about the time his family said he retreated to his bedroom, wanting to be a living Buddha.
Fusa Furuya, born in July 1897, does not live at the address where she is registered and her whereabouts are unknown, Tokyo Suginami ward official Hiroshi Sugimoto said.
Her disappearance surfaced just days after the shocking discovery last week of the mummified body of the man Tokyo officials thought was the city's oldest living male.
Officials said they had not personally contacted the two people for decades despite listing them as the city's longest-living. They learned of the man's death and the woman's disappearance while updating records ahead of a holiday honoring the elderly next month.
Officials visited Furuya's apartment last Friday, but her 79-year-old daughter said she has never lived there.
The daughter, whose name was not disclosed, told officials she was not aware of her mother's registration at that address and said she thought her mother was just outside Tokyo with her younger brother, with whom she has lost touch.
But when officials checked that address they found a vacant lot.
Officials are also looking for a 106-year-old man who is missing in Nagoya, Kyodo News agency reported.
Japan has 40,399 people aged 100 or older, including 4,800 in Tokyo, according to an annual health ministry report last year marking a September 21 holiday honoring the elderly. Each centenarian receives a letter and a gift.
In the earlier case, police are investigating the family of Sogen Kato on suspicion of abandonment and swindling his pension money. Once listed as being 111 years old, he is now believed to have died 32 years ago, about the time his family said he retreated to his bedroom, wanting to be a living Buddha.
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