Japanese man becomes world's oldest living person

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Kyotango, Kyoto Prefecture, on April 19, 2012, shows Jiroemon Kimura. Kimura, a 115-year-old Japanese man born on April 19, 1897, has become the oldest living person in the world after an American woman, also 115, passed away on Dec. 17, 2012, according to the Guinness Book of Records.

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