World s oldest person dies in Japan

Tokya April 22 (IANS) Nabi Tajima a Japanese woman believed to have been the world s oldest person has died at the age of 117 the media reported on Sunday.

Tajima a resident of Japan s Kagoshima had been hospitalised since January and died from old age on Saturday evening Xinhua news agency reported.

Born in 1900 Tajima was believed to have become the world s oldest person after previous record-holder Violet Brown of Jamaica died at age 117 in September 2017.

The Guinness World Records had been conducting surveys to officially recognise Tajima as the world s oldest woman since the death of Violet Brown.

The organisation recognised Masazo Nonaka a 112-year-old Japanese man residing in Japan s Hokkaido as the world s oldest living male earlier in April.

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