The world’s oldest person, Nabi Tajima of Japan, died. He was 117 years old. He died on Saturday in a local hospital in the southern city of Kikate.
Tajima, who was born on August 4, 1900, was undergoing treatment in January from the hospital. He has left seven sons, two daughters. They have 160 members, including grandchildren in their family.
After the death of Violet Brown in Jamaica in September of 2017, Nazi Tajima has recognized the world’s oldest woman. At the same time, a video from Japan’s Television shows that Tajima is not handing her hand in a song organized on this occasion.
The US-based Gerontology Research Group said that according to them, the world’s oldest man, now Sia Miyako of Kanagawa area south of Tokyo’s capital Tokyo. He will soon step back in 117 years.
Beginning in April, Japan’s 112-year-old Masazzo Nonaka recognized Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest man. Tazima was planning to recognize the elderly person in the world.
Some of Japan’s world’s oldest people, including 116-year-old Jeremon Kemurasz, who died in 2013, are on the list. Last year, the country’s government said, there were about 68 thousand people in the 100 years of age. Source: Business Insider.
