ASIA: TOKYO- (Video) 116-year-old Japanese is world’s oldest person
JAPANESE Kane Tanaka, who is 116 years old, has been recognised as the oldest person by the Guinness World Records on Saturday (March 9). She finally achieved the dream she had since she was 100.
In a ceremony joined by families and local officials, Tanaka, who lives in a nursing home in Fukuoka City in southern Japan, received the Guinness World Records certificates for both the world’s oldest living person and the world’s oldest living woman.
Tanaka, born on Jan 2, 1903, cried and said the moment of recognition was the most exciting one in her life.
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The oldest man that has ever lived was a Japanese, Jiroemon Kimura, who died in 2013 at the age of 116 years and 54 days. The person who had lived the longest, recognised by Guinness World Records, is French woman Jeanne Calment who lived to be 122 years and 164 days and died on Aug 4, 1997.
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