He had celebrated his last birthday on January 2nd. Kane Tanaka, Japanese, the oldest woman in the world, he was 119 years old. Her record was recognized by the Guinness Book of Records in March 2019, when the woman was 116 years old. Back then, she celebrated with a bottle of Coke, her favorite drink of hers. The old woman confirmed her primacy when, in September 2020, she reached 117 years and 261 days.
His goal was to extend the record by (at least) another year, until it reaches 120 years.
Passionate about math problems and board games, the oldest woman in the world, who he loved fizzy drinks and chocolate, lived in a nursing home. Since he was about 112, he had a diet of rice, fish and soups and drank a lot of water. But he also loved sweets, and drank three cans a day of canned coffee and fizzy drinks every day. He often said that his secret to his longevity was to sleep soundly.
She was born – premature – in the prefecture of Fukuoka, in southwestern Japan, in 1903, just six months before George Orwell, and lived through five Japanese imperial kingdoms.
Tanaka was the seventh of nine siblings. She married when she was 19 and worked in the family noodle shop since her husband and eldest son went to fight in the Second Sino-Japanese War, which began in 1937. At the age of 67, he then started his own businessor, opening a flower shop.
The old woman was the third longest-lived person in historyafter the French Jeanne Calment (1875-1997) and the American Sarah Knauss (1880-1999), and is among the 3 people who in the history of humanity have reached with certainty the 118 and 119 years and between the 10 to have completed 117 years.
Women make up the vast majority of centenarians: according to the Japanese Ministry of Health, the people who have reached and exceeded 100 years are in all about 86,500, of which “only” 10,000 are men. Life expectancy in Japan is very high: it reaches 87.74 years for women and 81.64 for men.
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