(1)Kamato Hongo, world's oldest person, dies at 116

(1)Kamato Hongo, world's oldest person, dies at 116

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - The world's oldest person, Kamato Hongo (in an undated file photo) of the city of Kagoshima, died at the age of 116 in a Kagoshima hospital on Oct. 31, city officials said. Hongo, born in 1887 in the town of Isen on Tokunoshima Island, Kagaoshima Prefecture in southwestern Japan, was certified as the world's oldest person in March last year by the Guinness Book of Records.

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