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Japan's Missing Pension Accounts

If you were thinking, "Wasn't the biggest story in Japan something to do with education reform and changing the constitution?" you'd be correct, but the recent pension scandal has completely eclipsed the Abe administration's agenda and reduced Abe to having to repeatedly say he's going to get to the bottom of it if it's the last thing he does. There is an outstanding roundup of the whole mess by Chris Salzberg on Global Voices Online. It's a must read.

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Being a self-employed worker, I've been paying into it for years, I've even got the little blue book and all.

What has really happened to all that money? Surely it didn't vanish into thin air?

I wonder if I'll ever get to see any of it.

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