Ashiya, Hyogo Pref – Tomiko Itooka, recognized by Britain’s Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest person in September last year, has died in western Japan, health ministry and other officials said on Saturday 4th January 2024. She was 116.
Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies, said Itooka died at 9:03PM of old age on Dec. 29 at a care home for the elderly in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, according to the ministry and city officials.
Tomiko Itooka, the world’s oldest person in the city of Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, in May 2024 (Courtesy of the city)
Itooka, born in May 1908, had been the oldest person in Japan since a woman in the city of Kashiwara, Osaka Prefecture, a Hyogo neighbor, died at 116 in December 2023.
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