Pension records lost in agency blunder

Japan's Social Insurance Agency has admitted breaking its own laws by destroying 830,000 pension account records without making copies. The records detail corporate employee pension payments from the 1940s to 50s and should have been kept indefinitely.
The agency maintains that duplicates of the account records should exist in offices around the country while most dealt with past pension beneficiaries who would be unaffected by their loss anyway. However investigations continue into the account-keeping practices of the agency.
Social Democratic Party leader Mizuho Fukushima told media of the missing records in June, forcing the Social Insurance Agency to call a press conference and confirm the blunder.