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World’s oldest woman dies in Japan aged 119

SCMP, 27 Apr 2022
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A Japanese woman recognised as the world’s oldest person, Kane Tanaka, has died aged 119, just months short of her 120th birthday. Tanaka died on April 19, 2022, at a hospital in Fukuoka, her hometown in southern Japan where she spent all of her life. The Guinness Book of Records recognised her as the oldest person in the world in 2019.

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