The world’s oldest person, Nabi Tajima, a 117-year-old Japanese woman, has died of old age in a hospital Saturday evening in the town of Kikai in southern Japan, town official Susumu Yoshiyuki confirmed. She had been hospitalized since January. Tajima, born on Aug. 4, 1900, was the last known person born in the 19th century.
According to the reports she had more than 160 descendants, including great-great-great-grandchildren. Her town of Kikai is in Kagoshima prefecture on Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands.
She became the world’s oldest person seven months ago after the death in September of Violet Brown in Jamaica, also at the age of 117. The US-based Gerontology Research Group says that another Japanese woman, Chiyo Miyako, is now the world’s oldest person in its records. Miyako lives south of Tokyo in Kanagawa prefecture and is due to turn 117 in 10 days.
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Guinness World Records certified 112-year-old Masazo Nonaka of northern Japan as the world’s oldest man earlier this month and was planning to recognize Tajima as the world’s oldest person.
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