The world's oldest person, Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka, has died at the age of 116.
Tomiko Itooka, who had four children and five grandchildren, died on Dec 29, 2024, in the nursing home she lived in. - Photo: AFP TOKYO: The world's oldest person, Japan ese woman Tomiko Itooka, has died aged 116, the city where she lived, Ashiya, announced on Saturday (Jan 4). Itooka, who had four children and five grandchildren, died on December 29 at a nursing home where she resided since 2019, the southern city's mayor said in a statement.
She was born on May 23, 1908 in the commercial hub of Osaka, near Ashiya -- four months before the Ford Model T was launched in the United States. Itooka was recognised as the oldest person in the world after the August 2024 death of Spain's Maria Branyas Morera at age 117. 'Ms Itooka gave us courage and hope through her long life,' Ashiya's 27-year-old mayor Ryosuke Takashima said in the statement.In her older age, Itooka enjoyed bananas and Calpis, a milky soft drink popular in Japan, according to the mayor's statement. Women typically enjoy longevity in Japan, but the country is facing a worsening demographic crisis as its expanding elderly population leads to soaring medical and welfare costs, with a shrinking labour force to pay for it. As of September, Japan counted more than 95,000 people who were 100 or older -- 88 per cent of whom were women
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