Guinness recognizes Japanese man as world's oldest

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)

Guinness recognizes Japanese man as world's oldest

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)

Japanese recognized as world's oldest man

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)

Japanese recognized as world's oldest man

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)

World's oldest man

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.

World's oldest man turns 112

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

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

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

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

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

Guinness recognizes Japanese man as world's oldest

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)