By Stuart Biggs and Sachiko Sakamaki
Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) -- More senior citizens are picking pockets and shoplifting in Japan to cope with cuts in government welfare spending and rising health-care costs in a fast-ageing society.
Criminal offences by people 65 or older doubled to 48,605 in the five years to 2008, the most since police began compiling national statistics in 1978, a Ministry of Justice report said.
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Watch out! The super predator senior citizen crime wave is coming to a neighbourhood near you. Tom
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