Tanegashima - o Museu da Espingarda

Ano que vem, quero ir ao Festival da Espingarda. Apesar de ser em Agosto e estarem lá uns 40ºC nessa altura... 

Tanegashima, Inícios de Agosto, em recuerdo...

Faltava publicar as fotos de Tanegashima, o primeiro ponto de contacto entre portugueses e japoneses, visitado no dia 1 de Agosto passado, a propósito da escala da "Sagres" por aquelas bandas.

O Cabo Kadokura, onde os primeiros portugueses "encalharam", em 22 de Agosto de 1543.

Hoje em dia, ouve-se falar mais de Tanegashima por causa disto:

Até agora, foi onde vi as melhores praias no Japão (ok, ainda não fui a Okinawa...). Fica o registo do único dia de praia deste ano...

234.000 É Muita Gente, Digo Eu. Mas em Marte, Se Calhar, Nem Por Isso

Over 234,000 centenarians unaccounted for among missing elderly

TOKYO, Sept. 10, Kyodo

A total of 234,354 centenarians are unaccounted for across Japan despite still being registered as alive under the family registry system, the government said Friday based on its nationwide survey on missing elderly.

Of the persons aged 100 and over whose current domicile cannot be found, 77,118 would be 120 years old or older and 884 would be at least 150 years old if they were still alive, the Justice Ministry said.

Among the missing centenarians, there appear to be people whose families did not report their deaths or for whom an adjudication of disappearance was not submitted to local authorities, as they died during wartime and postwar turmoil or after they emigrated, the ministry said.

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"241 missing elderly cut from records" - Não Podem Ser Só Estes...

Local governments have deleted the resident registrations of 241 out of 297 missing people recorded as centenarians, according to a nationwide investigation by The Yomiuri Shimbun. Although about 80 percent of the missing centenarians were removed from resident lists, the whereabouts of many more are unknown despite the fact that they are recorded as alive in family registers or resident registrations.

Local authorities in charge of family registers are believed to have failed to properly report the deaths of 33 "missing" centenarians to other local authorities in charge of resident registrations. Most of the remaining missing centenarians will likely be deleted from resident registration lists. As of Friday, deletion procedures were under way for 44 such people.

The Yomiuri asked 55 municipal governments about the status of missing centenarians. As of Aug. 14, 242 centenarians were reported missing, but similar cases were later found in Yokohama and other places. Hyogo Prefecture had the largest number of such cases at 119. Among municipalities, Kobe had 113, followed by Osaka's 45 and Yokohama's 38. In most cases, local governments deleted the residents' registration at their initiative.

Resident registrations can normally be created or deleted in the Basic Residents' Register only upon application, but local governments can delete registrations if residence in the municipality cannot be confirmed for many years or there are other irregularities. Local governments have not acted to delete the registrations of the remaining 12 missing centenarians. For example, the office of Minato Ward, Tokyo, said it had not started the procedures in one case because it was still investigating the missing resident's status.

In 70 cases, municipal governments were able to contact relatives of missing centenarians through interviews or telephone, but none were able to confirm the whereabouts of their missing relatives. In 105 of the 241 cases in which resident registrations were deleted, other people lived at the addresses listed as the person's residence. In 29 cases, no houses existed at the addresses. Relatives asked local governments to delete resident registrations or told the local governments they did not know the whereabouts of missing centenarians in 37 cases.

One missing person was registered as 200 years old-meaning the person was born during the Edo period (1603-1867). The concerned local governments are taking procedures to delete both family registers and resident registrations of such people.

(The Yomiuri Shimbun, Sep. 6, 2010)

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TS 1009 (Malou)
Issued at 02:45 UTC, 8 September 2010

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