List of Japanese supercentenarians
Japanese supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from Japan who have attained or surpassed the age of 110 years. As of January 2015, the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 263 Japanese supercentenarians, most of whom are women.[1] As of 28 October 2023, it lists the oldest living Japanese person as Fusa Tatsumi (born in Ōsaka on 25 April 1907), aged 116 years, 186 days.[2] The oldest verified Japanese and Asian person ever is Kane Tanaka (1903–2022), who lived to the age of 119 years and 107 days, making her the second oldest validated person ever as well. Japan was also home to the world's oldest man ever, Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013), who lived to the age of 116 years and 54 days.[3]
100 oldest known Japanese
Deceased Living
Rank | Name | Sex | Birth date | Death date | Age | Birthplace | Place of death or residence |
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1 | Kane Tanaka[4] | F | 2 January 1903 | 19 April 2022 | 119 years, 107 days | Fukuoka | Fukuoka |
2 | Nabi Tajima[4] | F | 4 August 1900 | 21 April 2018 | 117 years, 260 days | Kagoshima | Kagoshima |
3 | Chiyo Miyako[4] | F | 2 May 1901 | 22 July 2018 | 117 years, 81 days | Wakayama | Kanagawa |
4 | Misao Okawa[4] | F | 5 March 1898 | 1 April 2015 | 117 years, 27 days | Osaka | Osaka |
5 | Fusa Tatsumi[2] | F | 25 April 1907 | Living | 116 years, 186 days | Osaka | Osaka |
6 | Tane Ikai[5] | F | 18 January 1879 | 12 July 1995 | 116 years, 175 days | Aichi | Aichi |
7 | Jiroemon Kimura[1] | M | 19 April 1897 | 12 June 2013 | 116 years, 54 days | Kyoto | Kyoto |
8 | Shigeyo Nakachi[4] | F | 1 February 1905 | 11 January 2021 | 115 years, 345 days | Saga | Saga |
9 | Shimoe Akiyama[4] | F | 19 May 1903 | 29 January 2019 | 115 years, 255 days | (unknown) | Aichi |
10 | Anonymous[4] | F | 15 March 1900 | 27 September 2015 | 115 years, 196 days | (unknown) | Tokyo |
11 | Tomiko Itooka[2] | F | 23 May 1908 | Living | 115 years, 158 days | Osaka | Hyōgo |
12 | Shin Matsushita[4] | F | 30 March 1904 | 27 August 2019 | 115 years, 150 days | Miyagi | Miyagi |
13 | Mina Kitagawa[4] | F | 3 November 1905 | 19 December 2020 | 115 years, 46 days | Shiga | Shiga |
14 | Yoshi Otsunari[4] | F | 17 December 1906 | 26 January 2022 | 115 years, 40 days | (unknown) | Fukuoka |
15 | Koto Ōkubo[1][6] | F | 24 December 1897 | 12 January 2013 | 115 years, 19 days | Tokyo | Kanagawa |
16 | Chiyono Hasegawa[7] | F | 20 November 1896 | 2 December 2011 | 115 years, 12 days | Saga | Saga |
17 | Anonymous[4] | F | 29 April 1907 | 30 April 2022 | 115 years, 1 day | (unknown) | Hyōgo |
18 | Kama Chinen[8] | F | 10 May 1895 | 2 May 2010 | 114 years, 357 days | Okinawa | Okinawa |
19 | Kahoru Furuya[4] | F | 18 February 1908 | 25 December 2022[9] | 114 years, 310 days | (unknown) | Shizuoka |
20 | Kiyoko Ishiguro[4] | F | 4 March 1901 | 5 December 2015 | 114 years, 276 days | Tokyo | Kanagawa |
21 | Yukie Hino[4] | F | 17 April 1902 | 13 January 2017 | 114 years, 271 days | (unknown) | Niigata |
22 | Hide Ohira[5] | F | 15 September 1880 | 9 May 1995 | 114 years, 236 days | Wakayama | Wakayama |
23 | Yone Minagawa[10] | F | 4 January 1893 | 13 August 2007 | 114 years, 221 days | Fukuoka | Fukuoka |
24 | Ura Koyama[5] | F | 30 August 1890 | 5 April 2005 | 114 years, 218 days | Hiroshima | Fukuoka |
25 | Yoshi Baba[4] | F | 3 June 1907 | 4 January 2022 | 114 years, 215 days | Yamanashi | Yamanashi |
26 | Iso Nakamura[4] | F | 23 April 1903 | 23 November 2017 | 114 years, 214 days | Ishikawa | Ishikawa |
27 | Mitsue Toyoda[4] | F | 15 February 1902 | 25 August 2016 | 114 years, 192 days | (unknown) | Ōita |
28 | Tase Matsunaga[5] | F | 11 May 1884 | 18 November 1998 | 114 years, 191 days | Niigata | Tokyo |
Kame Ganeko[4] | F | 10 April 1905 | 18 October 2019 | Okinawa | Okinawa | ||
30 | Yukichi Chuganji[5] | M | 23 March 1889 | 28 September 2003 | 114 years, 189 days | Fukuoka | Fukuoka |
31 | Kame Nakamura[11] | F | 8 March 1898 | 12 September 2012 | 114 years, 188 days | Okinawa | Okinawa |
32 | Mitoyo Kawate[5] | F | 15 May 1889 | 13 November 2003 | 114 years, 182 days | Hiroshima | Hiroshima |
33 | Toshie Yorimitsu[4] | F | 30 September 1901 | 28 February 2016 | 114 years, 151 days | Kōchi | Okinawa |
34 | Ushi Makishi[12] | F | 15 February 1909 | 4 July 2023[13] | 114 years, 139 days | Okinawa | Okinawa |
35 | Kimiko Ono[14] | F | 20 June 1908 | 31 October 2022 | 114 years, 133 days | Wakayama | Osaka |
36 | Tae Ito[4] | F | 11 July 1903 | 13 November 2017 | 114 years, 125 days | Iwate | Iwate |
37 | Hama Yasukawa[4] | F | 19 January 1907 | 23 May 2021 | 114 years, 124 days | Hyōgo | Hyōgo |
38 | Chiyo Shiraishi[15] | F | 6 August 1895 | 19 November 2009 | 114 years, 105 days | Fukushima | Ibaraki |
39 | Michiko Yamazaki[16] | F | 28 July 1905 | 31 October 2019 | 114 years, 95 days | Nagano | Nagano |
40 | Asa Takii[5] | F | 28 April 1884 | 31 July 1998 | 114 years, 94 days | Hiroshima | Hiroshima |
41 | Waka Shirahama[17] | F | 26 March 1878 | 16 June 1992 | 114 years, 82 days | Kagoshima | Miyazaki |
Osugi Sogo[18] | F | 14 August 1905 | 4 November 2019 | Hiroshima | Ehime | ||
43 | Suekiku Miyanaga[5] | F | 7 April 1884 | 20 June 1998 | 114 years, 74 days | Kagoshima | Kagoshima |
44 | Yasue Okai[19] | F | 25 November 1908 | 6 February 2023 | 114 years, 73 days | Osaka | Osaka |
45 | Shige Hirooka[7] | F | 16 January 1897 | 29 March 2011 | 114 years, 72 days | (unknown) | Osaka |
46 | Okagi Hayashi[2] | F | 2 September 1909 | Living | 114 years, 56 days | Gifu | Gifu |
47 | Hide Hamabe[19] | F | 3 December 1908 | 10 January 2023[20] | 114 years, 38 days | Miyazaki | Miyazaki |
48 | Tomoe Iwata[4] | F | 25 March 1904 | 13 April 2018 | 114 years, 19 days | Iwate | Iwate |
49 | Tane Yonekura[4] | F | 2 May 1904 | 19 May 2018 | 114 years, 17 days | (unknown) | Kagoshima |
50 | Tane Matsubara[2] | F | 15 October 1909 | Living | 114 years, 13 days | Tochigi | Hokkaido |
51 | Kura Bingo[4] | F | 20 October 1905 | 31 October 2019 | 114 years, 11 days | (unknown) | Nara |
52 | Yoshiyo Bessho[4] | F | 1 April 1904 | 8 April 2018 | 114 years, 7 days | Okayama | Okayama |
53 | Hatsue Ono[11] | F | 31 October 1898 | 17 October 2012 | 113 years, 352 days | Iwate | Hokkaido |
54 | Yasu Akino[5] | F | 1 March 1885 | 12 February 1999 | 113 years, 348 days | Shizuoka | Shizuoka |
55 | Nahi Yonamine[4] | F | 9 March 1908 | 7 February 2022 | 113 years, 335 days | Okinawa | Okinawa |
56 | Masa Matsumoto[2] | F | 29 November 1909 | Living | 113 years, 333 days | Shiga | Kanagawa |
57 | Shinobu Hayashi[21] | F | 15 March 1909 | 25 January 2023 | 113 years, 316 days | Kumamoto | Kumamoto |
58 | Sayo Taminato[4] | F | 15 October 1906 | 7 August 2020 | 113 years, 297 days | Okinawa | Okinawa |
Fumi Hoshino[4] | F | 30 October 1908 | 23 August 2022 | Tokyo | Tokyo | ||
Seki Yoshida[22] | F | 4 January 1910 | Living | 113 years, 297 days | Ibaraki | Ibaraki | |
61 | Kimi Asanuma[4] | F | 3 November 1905 | 22 August 2019 | 113 years, 292 days | (unknown) | Tokyo |
62 | Tsuneyo Toyonaga[23] | F | 21 May 1894 | 22 February 2008 | 113 years, 277 days | Kōchi | Kōchi |
63 | Tomoji Tanabe[15] | M | 18 September 1895 | 19 June 2009 | 113 years, 274 days | Miyazaki | Miyazaki |
64 | Mitsue Nagasaki[1] | F | 18 September 1899 | 17 June 2013 | 113 years, 272 days | Kumamoto | Hiroshima |
65 | Hisa Ono[24] | F | 8 December 1905 | 4 September 2019 | 113 years, 270 days | Saga | Saga |
66 | Shizue Nagata[4] | F | 25 July 1903 | 12 April 2017 | 113 years, 261 days | (unknown) | Kumamoto |
Teru Ōshiro[25] | F | 10 May 1904 | 26 January 2018 | Okinawa | Okinawa | ||
Kimi Kawasaki[26] | F | 24 March 1909 | 10 December 2022 | Chiba | Kanagawa | ||
69 | Hatsuno Gotō[4] | F | 1 September 1903 | 15 May 2017 | 113 years, 256 days | Niigata | Tokyo |
70 | Tsurue Amō[4] | F | 1 March 1904 | 6 November 2017 | 113 years, 250 days | (unknown) | Tokushima |
71 | Katsue Kurimoto[4] | F | 20 March 1907 | 22 November 2020 | 113 years, 247 days | Tokushima | Nara |
72 | Hisa Arai[4] | F | 10 September 1904 | 4 May 2018 | 113 years, 236 days | Gifu | Gifu |
73 | Shige Mineshiba[27] | F | 18 May 1909 | 6 January 2023[28] | 113 years, 233 days | Aichi | Canada |
74 | Shitsu Nakano[10] | F | 1 January 1894 | 19 August 2007 | 113 years, 230 days | Fukuoka | Fukuoka |
75 | Katsuko Tago[2][29] | F | 28 March 1910 | Living | 113 years, 214 days | Nagano | Tokyo |
76 | Taka Tsuji[4] | F | 6 August 1906 | 4 March 2020 | 113 years, 211 days | Saga | Saga |
77 | Shina Seki[19] | F | 1 October 1909 | 25 April 2023[30] | 113 years, 206 days | Ibaraki | Ibaraki |
78 | Tsukimi Kishi[4] | F | 31 August 1905 | 19 March 2019 | 113 years, 200 days | Tochigi | Tochigi |
79 | Kikue Taira[2] | F | 26 April 1910 | Living | 113 years, 185 days | Okinawa | Okinawa |
80 | Mitsuno Sato[31] | F | 9 April 1909 | 6 October 2022 | 113 years, 180 days | Akita | Akita |
81 | Masazō Nonaka[4] | M | 25 July 1905 | 20 January 2019 | 113 years, 179 days | Hokkaido | Hokkaido |
82 | Kiku Usami[4] | F | 1 September 1904 | 26 February 2018 | 113 years, 178 days | (unknown) | Niigata |
83 | Tame Yamaguchi[4] | F | 20 March 1907 | 6 September 2020 | 113 years, 170 days | Kagoshima | Miyazaki |
84 | Masa Iseri[4] | F | 19 September 1902 | 5 March 2016 | 113 years, 168 days | (unknown) | Kumamoto |
85 | Hisako Shiroishi[2] | F | 19 May 1910 | Living | 113 years, 162 days | Saitama | Saitama |
86 | Koito Furukawa[1] | F | 8 May 1901 | 11 October 2014 | 113 years, 156 days | Tokushima | Tokushima |
87 | Katsue Hiraishi[4] | F | 9 June 1904 | 6 November 2017 | 113 years, 150 days | Tokushima | Tokushima |
88 | Yoshino Tanaka[1] | F | 3 March 1900 | 30 July 2013 | 113 years, 149 days | Okinawa | Nagasaki |
89 | Terue Ashida[1] | F | 20 September 1899 | 15 February 2013 | 113 years, 148 days | Hyōgo | Hyōgo |
90 | Kesa Yamada[4] | F | 30 March 1907 | 15 August 2020 | 113 years, 138 days | Gunma | Gunma |
91 | Komiya Miyazaki[7] | F | 20 August 1897 | 4 January 2011 | 113 years, 137 days | Hiroshima | Hiroshima |
92 | Mise Ito[5] | F | 6 November 1890 | 18 March 2004 | 113 years, 133 days | Shizuoka | Shizuoka |
93 | Jun Kitamasu[1] | F | 2 March 1900 | 11 July 2013 | 113 years, 131 days | Hiroshima | Hiroshima |
94 | Maki Hirabayashi[32] | F | 17 October 1909 | 22 February 2023[33] | 113 years, 128 days | Nagano | Hokkaido |
95 | Kaku Yamanaka[23] | F | 11 December 1894 | 5 April 2008 | 113 years, 116 days | Aichi | Aichi |
Motome Hirata[34] | F | 12 August 1906 | 6 December 2019 | Nagano | Chiba | ||
Setsuko Moriyama[4] | F | 5 November 1907 | 1 March 2021 | Okinawa | Okinawa | ||
98 | Sue Utagawa[5] | F | 19 January 1884 | 4 May 1997 | 113 years, 105 days | Yamaguchi | Yamaguchi |
99 | Tome Takaoka[11] | F | 1 January 1899 | 12 April 2012 | 113 years, 102 days | Osaka | Ibaraki |
100 | Masayo Itō[4] | F | 1 October 1902 | 6 January 2016 | 113 years, 97 days | (unknown) | Miyagi |
Biographies
Denzō Ishizaki
Denzō Ishizaki (石崎 伝蔵, Ishizaki Denzō, 2 October 1886 (or 1884?) – 29 April 1999) was an elementary school teacher and town assembly member in his hometown Kansago, Ibaraki Prefecture. At the time of his death, Ishizaki had been the world's oldest living man for almost 18 weeks, as well as the 9th oldest living person in the world.[35] He died of multiple organ failure on 29 April 1999 at age 112 (or 114?) years and 209 days,[36] and was the oldest Japanese man ever (until October 2001, when his record was broken by Yukichi Chuganji). However, Ishizaki claimed to be two years older, asserting that his birth register had been "delayed by two years".[37] In July 2023, LongeviQuest determined that Ishizaki was born 18 days earlier than previously believed, based on his family records.[38]
Yukichi Chuganji
Yukichi Chuganji (中願寺 雄吉; Chūganji Yūkichi, 23 March 1889 – 28 September 2003) was a Japanese silkworm breeder, instructor in the agricultural specialty, bank employee and community welfare officer who lived for 114 years and 189 days. At the time of his death, he was the oldest Japanese man ever and the world's oldest living person.
Chuganji didn't like to eat vegetables but liked beef, pork and chicken. He also ate toffee, drank milk, the occasional apple juice and only drank alcohol in moderation, which he believed were the secrets to a long life. During the last years of his life, he had failing eye sight and was bedridden. He died of natural causes on the evening of 28 September 2003, after being served a glass of apple juice by his 74-year-old daughter, who was his only living child.[39] Besides 5 children, Chuganji also had 7 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
Yasutaro Koide
Yasutaro Koide (小出 保太郎, Koide Yasutarō, 13 March 1903 – 19 January 2016) worked as a tailor for a men's clothes shop in Tsuruga, Fukui.[40] He moved to Nagoya when he was 107 years old, to live with his daughter.[41] When he turned 110, Koide could still read newspapers without eyeglasses and eat without dentures.[42]
On 31 March 2014, Koide became the oldest living person in Aichi Prefecture following the death of Nagoya resident Tsuya Miura, who died at the age of 111.[43] The following year, he became the oldest living man in the world following the death of Sakari Momoi on 5 July 2015,[44] a feat which was recognized by Guinness World Records on 21 August 2015.[40] When asked about the secret to his long life, Koide responded by stating that "the best thing is to not overdo" and recommending abstinence from smoking or drinking.[41]
Koide died on 19 January 2016 due to heart failure and pneumonia in a hospital in Nagoya at the age of 112 years, 312 days.[45]
Nabi Tajima
Nabi Tajima (田島 ナビ, Tajima Nabi, 4 August 1900 – 21 April 2018)[46][47][48] succeeded Violet Brown as the world's oldest person after Brown's death on 16 September 2017. She was the last person verified as having been born in the 19th century.[49]
Tajima was born and died on the small island of Kikaijima in the Amami Islands chain, about halfway between Okinawa and the main Japanese islands. Her husband, Tominishi Tajima (田島 富二子), died aged 93 in 1991.[50][51] She had nine children, seven sons and two daughters,[50] and in September 2017 she was reported to have had around 160 descendants, including great-great-great-grandchildren.[52] She stated that her longevity was due to sleeping soundly and eating delicious food.[49] Guinness World Records was planning to certify Tajima as the world's oldest person, but she died at a nursing home in Kikai shortly before they could do so.[53][54]
She died at age 117 years and 260 days on 21 April 2018, and was the oldest Japanese person ever until Kane Tanaka surpassed her age on 19 September 2020.[55]
Masazō Nonaka
Masazō Nonaka (野中 正造, Nonaka Masazō, 25 July 1905 – 20 January 2019) had been, at the time of his death, Japan's oldest living man since October 2016,[56] and the world's oldest living man for one year, since January 2018.[57] Nonaka was also the oldest person ever born in Hokkaidō.
He had two brothers and three sisters; Nonaka married Hatsuno Nonaka in 1931. They had five children, of whom three were living as of his death.[58] He ran the family onsen, which opened in 1905. He spent most of his later years in a wheelchair, crediting his longevity to eating sweets and relaxing in the hot springs.[59][60] Nonaka died at home of natural causes at 1:30 a.m. on 20 January 2019, aged 113 years and 179 days.[58][61]
Fusa Tatsumi
Fusa Tatsumi (巽フサ, Tatsumi Fusa, born 25 April 1907) is a Japanese supercentenarian. Aged 116 years and 186 days, she has been Japan's oldest living person since the death of Kane Tanaka on 19 April 2022.[62][63]
Fusa Tatsumi was born in Yao, Osaka Prefecture, Empire of Japan on 25 April 1907.[62] Tatsumi moved into the Hakuto nursing home in Kashiwara, Osaka Prefecture, Japan in 2013. When she came to the nursing home she was in relatively good health, and was able to do gymnastics from her wheelchair. Aged 110, she was still able to do her own makeup.[64] She is now bedridden and rarely speaks.[65][66] After the death of Lucile Randon of France on 17 January 2023, Tatsumi became the second-oldest living person in the world behind Maria Branyas, a Californian-born woman of Catalan descent.[67][66][68] The pair are the last two people verified to have been born in 1907.[2]
See also
- Shigechiyo Izumi, wrongly assumed to have been the world's oldest man ever
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