100-year-old journalist gets his university diploma at long last

100-year-old journalist gets his university diploma at long last

Centenarian journalist Takeji Muno finally receives his university diploma and hoists it at a ceremony at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in Tokyo's western suburb of Chofu on Oct. 31, 2015. Muno graduated from the university's predecessor in 1936, but a commencement ceremony was canceled due to an abortive but bloody coup that threw the Japanese capital into confusion. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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