World’s Oldest Person Named Kane Tanaka of Japan Passes Away at the Age of 119
TOKYO, JAPAN – Kane Tanaka, the world’s oldest person located in Japan has already passed away at the age of 119.
On Monday (April 25, 2022), Japanese local officials announced that the Centenarian Japanese woman who has been certified as the world’s oldest person has died. She passed away of old age at a hospital in Fukuoka city, western Japan last April 19, 2022.
Tanaka is a Japanese supercentenarian, who was the world’s oldest verified living person and the second oldest verified person in the world following the death of Chiyo Miyako in July 2018.
The supercentenarian was born on January 2, 1903, in the village of Wajiro on the southern island of Kyushu. She is the third daughter and seventh child of her parents. She was actually born on December 26, 1902, but her parents delayed the process of filing the report for a week due to her premature condition.
The oldest woman lives a good and healthy life until she resides in a nursing home. She loves playing board games, solving maths problems, soda, and chocolate.
“I was looking forward to seeing Kane-san on this year’s Respect for the Aged Day (a national holiday in September) and celebrating together with her favorite soda and chocolate,” Local governor Seitaro Hattori said.
During her younger years, she used to run different businesses such as a noodle shop and a rice cake store. She married her husband Hideo Tanaka in 1922 and have four children and adopt another child as their fifth.
The Guinness World Records recognized her as the oldest person alive in 2019 after Frenchwoman Jeanne Louise Calment died at the age of 122 in 1997.
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