World’s oldest person dies in Japan aged 119

Kane Tanaka: World’s oldest person dies in Japan aged 119. Tanaka became certified by the Guinness World Records as the oldest living person in 2019

Kane Tanaka, a Japanese woman certified as the oldest person in the world, has died at the age of 119.

Local officials said Tanaka died of old age in hospital in Fukuoka city, western Japan, on Tuesday last week.

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