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Japan's oldest person dies at 116

Photo taken in Kashiwara in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on June 30, 2022, shows 115-year-old Fusa Tatsumi, who became Japan's oldest person when a 119-year-old woman died in April 2022. Tatsumi died on Dec. 12, 2023, at age 116.

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Oldest woman

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Misao Okawa, a 115-year-old woman in Osaka, who became the oldest living person in the world on June 12, 2013, the Japanese unit of Guinness said.

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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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Guinness mails world's oldest woman certificate to Hongo

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Kamato Hongo, a 115-year-old resident of Kagoshima, receives a certificate Sept. 24 that officially recognizes her as the oldest living female in the Guinness Book of World Records. The certificate, mailed by the British publication, reached Hongo six months after she became the world's oldest person when 115-year-old American Maude Farris-Luse died March 18.