portupgrade problem

[atk2 at arctic.org]

Things worked fine until last upgrade (this morning). Now I get the following
errors:

pc1# !?upgr
portupgrade -ra
Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..tkscanfax-1.02: "/usr/ports/japanese/tk80" non-existent -- dependency list incomplete
===> comms/tkscanfax failed
*** Error code 1
1 error

********************************************************************
Before reporting this error, verify that you are running a supported
version of FreeBSD (see http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/) and that you
have a complete and up-to-date ports collection.  (INDEX builds are
not supported with partial or out-of-date ports collections -- in
particular, if you are using cvsup, you must cvsup the "ports-all"
collection, and have no "refuse" files.)  If that is the case, then
report the failure to ports at FreeBSD.org together with relevant
details of your ports configuration (including FreeBSD version,
your architecture, your environment, and your /etc/make.conf
settings, especially compiler flags and WITH/WITHOUT settings).

Note: the latest pre-generated version of INDEX may be fetched
automatically with "make fetchindex".
********************************************************************

*** Error code 1

Stop in /f/ports.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /f/ports.
failed to generate INDEX!
index generation error
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:482:in `open_db': database file error (PortsDB::DBError)
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:634:in `port'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:822:in `all_depends_list'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:915:in `tsort_build'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:907:in `each'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:907:in `tsort_build'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:929:in `sort_build'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:933:in `sort_build!'
        from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:674:in `main'
        from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:207:in `initialize'
        from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:207:in `new'
        from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:207:in `main'
        from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:1845
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My refuse file has:
ports/japanese
---

Is the above error an indication that the new portupgrade tool now requires
that I download the japanese port - or is there another workaround ?

Alan