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Kane Tanaka, the world’s oldest person, has died in Japan aged 119, according to a statement released by the country’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Tanaka, who was born on January 2,...
The world’s oldest person, US-born Maria Branyas Morera, has died at the age of 117, her family announced on social media. Guinness World Records (GWR) also released a statement confirming...
According to a statement from Guinness World Records, Tanaka—both the oldest living person and the world's oldest living woman—had been "hospitalized and discharged repeatedly" in recent weeks...
Kane Tanaka (田中 カ子, Tanaka Kane, née Ōta (太田); 2 January 1903 – 19 April 2022) was a Japanese supercentenarian who, until her death at the age of 119 years, 107 days, was the world's oldest verified living person, following the death of Chiyo Miyako on 22 July 2018.
Although she didn't quite make it to her goal of 120 years old, Kane Tanaka still lived long enough to become the world's oldest person — a title she held for the past three years, and...
When Ms. Tanaka died on April 19 at 119, not far from the now-shuttered base in the southern city of Fukuoka, she was the world’s oldest person and had lived seven years longer than the oldest...
Kane Tanaka, the world’s oldest verified person, died in Japan at 119 years old. Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare released a public statement announcing Tanaka's death. She died...
A Japanese woman officially certified as the world's oldest person has died aged 119. Kane Tanaka was born in 1903, the same year as George Orwell, at a time when Japan was emerging as a...
Kane Tanaka of Japan died last Tuesday, Guinness World Records reported Monday. On April 13, Tanaka's family tweeted that she had recently been "hospitalized and discharged repeatedly."
Guinness World Records are saddened to hear that Kane Tanaka (Japan) passed away on 19 April 2022 at the age of 119. The news has been confirmed by Senior Gerontology Consultant Robert Young, who also helped confirm Kane’s record as the oldest person living and oldest person living (female) in 2019.