Kane Tanaka was recognized in April 2022 by Guinness World Records as the oldest living person
The oldest woman in Japan died today at the age of 116according to the announcement of officials of the city where this woman lived through two world wars.
Born in 1907, Fusa Tatsumi had raised three children with her farmer husband, near Osaka (western Japan), local broadcaster MBS broadcast alongside footage of Tatsumi in her wheelchair on her last birthday last April.
“Tatsumi died today at the age of 116,” a councilor in Osaka’s Kashiwara city confirmed to AFP.
“I remember Ms. Fusa Tatsumi was in good health,” Osaka Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura wrote on the X social network, recalling her presence at a celebration last September in her honor.
Japan is the second, after Monaco, country with the most centenarians, namely more than 47,000.
Fusa Tatsumi became the oldest resident of the archipelago following the death of Kane Tanaka last year at the age of 119.
Kane Tanaka was recognized in April 2022 by Guinness World Records as the oldest living person.
Currently, that “title” belongs to United States-born Spaniard Maria Branias, who will turn 117 on March 4, 2024.
Source :Skai
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