Yone Minagawa, 114, becomes world's oldest person

Yone Minagawa, 114, becomes world's oldest person

FUKUOKA, Japan - Yone Minagawa, aged 114, receives a bouquet of floor from a young relative during a celebration party at the Keijuen nursing home in Fukuchi, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Jan. 30 after it was known that Minagawa became the world's oldest person, following the death of Emma Faust Tillman, also aged 114, in the United States.

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