Where’s Mummy?

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Hot on the heels of the story that Tokyo’s oldest man turned out to have died thirty years ago (see my blog for 31 July) is news that Tokyo’s oldest woman is missing.

The lady concerned is said to be 113 years old though Japanese officials have found that she has, in fact, been missing for decades. Her daughter says that she hasn’t seen her mother since the 1980s.

The discovery, an unsolved one as yet, came to light when local officials started checking the elderly after they found the mummy of the person who was thought to have been Tokyo's oldest man.

One can only hope that this mummy is not a mummy also!
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Smile!

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Tokyo commuters are now assured that the railway staff serving them have the biggest smiles going, for Japanese Railways have installed ‘smile scanners’ to ‘help employees deliver a better service’.

Staff sit before a ‘Smilescan’ computer which measures their smile and these are scanned from time to time to see how they perform against this measurement. Apparently, all of the station’s staff volunteered to be scanned and one of them said that the system enabled her to perfect her smile.

What a great idea! Why not introduce this amazing system into this country? There are millions of surly service employees in Britain that could benefit from a smile.

As could we all at this time!
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