117-Year-Old Japan Resident Kane Tanaka Is The World's Oldest Living Person

The oldest living person, Japan's Kane Tanaka recently celebrated her 117th birthday on January 2, 2020, creating a new world record.

She celebrated her birthday in a nursing home in Fukuoka in southern Japan. Her birthday party was graced by staff and friends at the nursing home, television footage from local broadcaster TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting Co showed.

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She beat her old record to become the world's oldest living person this year.

Last year, Tanaka made into the Guinness World Records for being the oldest person as on March 9, 2019, aged 116 years and 66 days.

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Tanaka was born premature in 1903, and she was the seventh kid out of eight children. She married Hideo Tanaka in 1922 according to the Guinness World Records. The couple had four children together and adopted a fifth. South China Morning Post reports that the 117-year-old woman is up by 6 AM and likes studying Mathematics.

Even though Tanaka is the oldest woman alive, she has half a decade to go to become the oldest living woman ever. The record is currently held by a French woman, Jeanne Louise Calment, who lived to 122 years, according to Guinness World Records.

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Guinness is still looking into the case of the world¡¯s oldest man alive, Masazo Nonaka, who lived on Japan¡¯s northernmost island of Hokkaido and died last January aged 113 years.