Japan's oldest person dies

Japan's oldest person dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in September 2010 shows Chiyono Hasegawa, who died Dec. 2, 2011, at the age of 115 in a nursing home in Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan. She was Japan's oldest person. The government said Jirouemon Kimura, a 114-year-old man in Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, is now the country's oldest person.

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