After declaring Mr. Kato as its "oldest man." Tokio on his 111th birthday, government officials went to his home to congratulate him and discovered he had been dead for 30 years.
There are some news that are not 100% technological or ecological, but quite imaginative and remind us something of the cunning and scheming of Greece. Such news for us it came from the BBC for the proclamation of a Japanese resident as the oldest citizen of Tokyo.
Mr. Kato, on his 111th birthday, was considered the oldest man in Tokyo, so officials tried to meet him to plan a birthday party to commemorate.
When they arrived at home his granddaughter told them she "doesn't want to see anyone". Welfare officials have tried to meet Mr. Kato several times since the beginning of this year, but each time they were repeatedly turned away by family members.
The authorities became suspicious scam and demanded an investigation by police, who forced their way into the home on Wednesday. As soon as they went to his house they found mummified remains of a skeleton in his bed!.
They discovered a mummified body, believed to be Kato, lying on his bed, wearing underwear and pajamas, covered with a blanket. Mr. Kato must have been dead for over 30 years.
The improbable part of the story is that Mr. Kato's relatives told the police that he had “been confined to thiseyehis more than 30 years ago and became a living Buddha."
But the family had received 9,5 million yen (about 100.000 euros) in widow's pension payments through Mr Kato's bank account since his wife died six years ago, and some of the money had recently retire.
The pension fund has been unable to contact Mr. Kato for some time.
As Yutaka Muroi, a Tokyo metropolitan social welfare worker, said: "His family must have known he was dead all these years and acted as if nothing had happened."
