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At 116, Japanese woman set to be named world’s oldest person
The longest-ever lived person validated was a French woman who lived
122 years and 164 days. She outlived both her daughter and grandson. Of the top
20 longest-lived women, seven were Japanese. Also, four of the 20 longest-ever-lived
men were Japanese. The average life expectancy for Japanese women is 87.1 years,
ranked top of the world, and 81.1 years for men, the second only after Hong
Kong. On September 20, Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese centenarian born in 1908, was
named the world’s oldest living person after her predecessor Maria Branyas
Morea of Spain passed away at the age of 117. Itooka, a mother of three, climbed
a 3,000-meter mountain twice in her 70s in sneakers. She walked up lengthy
stone steps of a shrine without a cane at the age of 100. She is healthy and
expected to hold the title for some time.
Read the article and learn about the longest-lived persons.
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