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Guinness recognizes Japanese man as world's oldest

TOKYO, Japan - Sakari Momoi, 111, holds a Guinness World Records certificate showing him to be the world's oldest living man in Tokyo on Aug. 20, 2014. (Pool photo)

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Guinness recognizes Japanese man as world's oldest

TOKYO, Japan - Sakari Momoi (R) receives a bouquet from Saitama Mayor Hayato Shimizu in Tokyo on Aug. 20, 2014, after the 111-year-old former teacher living in the city was recognized as the world's oldest living man by Guinness World Records. (Pool photo)

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Japanese recognized as world's oldest man

TOKYO, Japan - Sakari Momoi (R), a 111-year-old Japanese, receives a Guinness World Records certificate as the world's oldest man on Aug. 20, 2014, in Tokyo. The recognition came following the death in June of a Polish-born New Yorker of the same age who previously had the title. Momoi, a former teacher of agricultural chemistry, is receiving care at a health care institution in Tokyo. (Pool photo)

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Japanese recognized as world's oldest man

TOKYO, Japan - Sakari Momoi (R), a 111-year-old Japanese, receives a Guinness World Records certificate as the world's oldest man on Aug. 20, 2014, in Tokyo. The recognition came following the death in June of a Polish-born New Yorker of the same age who previously had the title. Momoi, a former teacher of agricultural chemistry, is receiving care at a health care institution in Tokyo. (Pool photo)

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World's oldest man

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in September 2013 shows Sakari Momoi (L), a resident of Saitama, writing a message to communicate with Saitama Mayor Hayato Shimizu (R back), in Tokyo. Momoi, Japan's oldest man, became the world's oldest at age 111 after Alexander Imich, also 111, died in New York on June 8, 2014.

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Japanese director wins Cannes award

CANNES, France - Photo shows Japanese film director Atsuko Hirayanagi (L) and Japanese actress Kaori Momoi in Cannes, France, in May 2014. "Oh Lucy!," Hirayanagi's graduation movie from the Singapore branch of a New York school, featuring Momoi, was selected for the second prize in the Cinefondation student film division of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival on May 22, 2014. It was the first award given to a Japanese filmmaker in the category, first created in 1998.

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Chef prepares for 2012 Culinary Olympics

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo shows chef Tsutomu Momoi in the city of Toyama on May 9, 2012. Momoi will be part of the Japan team at the 23rd Culinary Olympics to be held in Germany in October 2012. He said he is ready to show off his French cooking skills in the global competition.

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Directors shoot short films in tribute to March 11 victims

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese actress and film director Kaori Momoi (front) talks to Japanese film director Naomi Kawase (seen on screen) in Tokyo on July 27, 2011. Kawase, a Cannes International Film Festival award-winner, and Momoi are among dozens of film directors around the world who have made short films in dedication to the victims of March's earthquake and tsunami, in response to calls from organizers of a film festival to be held in disaster-hit Sendai in the autumn.

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World's oldest man turns 112

Sakari Momoi, a resident of Saitama city near Tokyo, receives a certificate from Guinness World Records as the world's oldest man in this file photo taken in August 2014. Momoi turned 112 on Feb. 5, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: 4th Yomiuri pitcher admits to betting on baseball

Undated combined photo shows Yomiuri Giants supreme advisor Tsuneo Watanabe (L) and owner Kojiro Shiraishi. The two and team chairman Tsunekazu Momoi will step down to accept responsibility for a fourth player's involvement in betting on baseball, the Giants said on March 8, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Fukushima, mon Amour" screened at Berlin film festival

(From L) Japanese actress Kaori Momoi, Germany film director Doris Dorrie and German actress Rosalie Thomass pose during a photo call at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in Berlin on Feb. 13, 2016. Their film "Fukushima, mon Amour," which depicts the friendship between Marie, a lost German full of self-doubt, and the Japanese Satomi, Fukushima's last remaining geisha, was screened in the festival's Panorama section the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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World's oldest man Sakari Momoi of Japan dies at 112

Photo taken July 7, 2015, shows Yasutaro Koide, a 112-year-old man in the central Japan city of Nagoya who has become the oldest man in Japan following the death of Sakari Momoi. Momoi, recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living male, died of chronic kidney failure at the age of 112 on July 5. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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World's oldest man Sakari Momoi of Japan dies at 112

File photo taken in August 2014 shows Sakari Momoi holding a Guinness World Records certificate that recognizes him as the world's oldest living male. Momoi died of chronic kidney failure at the age of 112 at a hospital in Tokyo on July 5, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Directors shoot short films in tribute to March 11 victims

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese actress and film director Kaori Momoi (front) talks to Japanese film director Naomi Kawase (seen on screen) in Tokyo on July 27, 2011. Kawase, a Cannes International Film Festival award-winner, and Momoi are among dozens of film directors around the world who have made short films in dedication to the victims of March's earthquake and tsunami, in response to calls from organizers of a film festival to be held in disaster-hit Sendai in the autumn. (Kyodo)

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Chef prepares for 2012 Culinary Olympics

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo shows chef Tsutomu Momoi in the city of Toyama on May 9, 2012. Momoi will be part of the Japan team at the 23rd Culinary Olympics to be held in Germany in October 2012. He said he is ready to show off his French cooking skills in the global competition. (Kyodo)

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Guinness recognizes Japanese man as world's oldest

TOKYO, Japan - Sakari Momoi (R) receives a bouquet from Saitama Mayor Hayato Shimizu in Tokyo on Aug. 20, 2014, after the 111-year-old former teacher living in the city was recognized as the world's oldest living man by Guinness World Records. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)