117-Year-Old Woman, Japan’s Oldest Person, Dies

July 27, 2018

Yokohama- Chiyo Miyako, the oldest person in Japan and a resident of Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, died on Sunday, the municipal government said Thursday. She was 117.

Kane Tanaka, a 115-year-old woman in the southwestern city of Fukuoka, is now the oldest person in the country, according to the health ministry.

The oldest man in the country is Masazo Nonaka, a 113-year-old resident of the town of Ashoro in Hokkaido, northernmost Japan. Jiji Press