TOKYO — The world's oldest person, Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka, has died at the age of 116, the city of Ashiya where she lived announced on Saturday.
TOKYO — The world's oldest person, Japan ese woman Tomiko Itooka, has died at the age of 116, the city of Ashiya where she lived announced on Saturday.Itooka, who had four children and five grandchildren, died on Dec. 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 automobile was launched in the United States.
Itooka gave us courage and hope through her long life,' Ashiya's 27-year-old mayor Ryosuke Takashima said in the statement.'We thank her for it.'Itooka, who was one of three siblings, lived through world wars and pandemics as well as technological breakthroughs.As a student, she played volleyball.In her older age, Itooka enjoyed bananas and Calpis, a milky soft drink popular in Japan, according to the mayor's statement.
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