According to World Bank data, Japan has the world’s largest senior population, with around 28 percent of the population aged 65 or older.
Tokyo: A Japanese lady who was certified as the world’s oldest person died on Monday at the age of 119, according to local officials.
Kane Tanaka was born on January 2, 1903, in Japan’s southern Fukuoka area, the same year that the Wright brothers flew for the first time and Marie Curie became the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize.
Tanaka was in good condition until recently and resided in a nursing home, where she loved board games, arithmetic puzzles, Pepsi, and chocolate.
Kane Tanaka, the world’s oldest woman, proceeded to beat her own world record for the oldest person when she attended a nursing home’s 119th birthday celebration, expressing hope to live to 120 years old.
In March 2019, Guinness World Records named the Japanese lady the world’s oldest person, and she also established the record for the longest living person in Japan.
In 1963, there were only 153 Japanese persons aged 100 and over.
Tanaka was born on January 2, 1903, the same year the Wright Brothers created the world’s first aeroplane and nearly 11 years before World War I.
She was the seventh kid in a family of nine.
According to sources, she is presently residing in a nursing facility in Fukuoka, where she enjoys completing puzzles.
Despite the fact that the centenarian is unable to talk, she interacts with employees through gestures.
In 1922, she married Hideo Tanaka and had five children. Her husband and eldest son were both soldiers in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
She has five grandkids and eight great-grandchildren as of 2020.
According to World Bank data, Japan has the world’s largest senior population, with around 28 percent of the population aged 65 or older.
The oldest person ever certified by Guinness was Frenchwoman Jeanne Louise Calment, who died in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days.