Fox News: World’s oldest person dies in Japan at 116

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World's oldest person dies in Japan at 116

Tomiko Itooka, the oldest person in the world, has died at 116. She was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1908 and is survived by one son, one daughter and five grandchildren....                        ...                        ...                            ...Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world's oldest person, according to You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116.......Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies, said Itooka died Dec. 29 at a care home in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Itooka, who loved bananas and a yogurt-flavored Japanese drink called Calpis, was born May 23, 1908. She became You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login last year after the death of 117-year-old Maria Branyas, according to the Gerontology Research Group.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......When she was told she was at the top of the World Supercentenarian Rankings List, she simply replied, "Thank you."......When Itooka celebrated her birthday last year, she received flowers, a cake and a card from the mayor.......Born in Osaka, Itooka was a volleyball player in high school and long had a reputation for a sprightly spirit, Nagata said. She climbed the 3,067-meter (10,062-foot) Mount Ontake twice.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......She married at 20, and had two daughters and two sons, according to Guinness.......Itooka managed the office of her husband's textile factory during World War II. She lived alone in Nara after her husband died in 1979.......She is survived by one son and one daughter and five grandchildren. A funeral service was held with family and friends, according to Nagata.......According to the Gerontology Research Group, the world's oldest person is now 116-year-old Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, who was born 16 days after Itooka....

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