Worlds's oldest person according to Guinness World Records has died at the age of 116. Tomiko Itooka, A Japanese woman has died in a nursing home in Ashiya, Hyogo prefecture according to the information. Ms Itooka was born in May 1908, six years before World War One, and the same year the Ford Model T automobile was introduced in the United States. She was confirmed as the world's oldest person in September 2024 and was given the official GWR certificate on Respect for the Aged Day, a Japanese state holiday observed yearly to honor the country's aged Ms Itooka, one of three siblings, who witnessed world wars, pandemics, and technological advances.
According to the mayor, she preferred bananas and Calpis, a milky soft drink popular in Japan, as she grew older. According to Guinness, she married at the age of 20 and had two daughters and two boys. During WWII, she ran the office of her husband's textile industry. Her husband died in 1979, and she lived alone in Nara.
Over 95,000 persons in Japan were 100 years of age or older as of September, with women making up 88% of this group. Nearly one-third of the country's 124 million citizens are 65 years or older. Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, who was born 16 days after Itooka and is now 116, is thought to be the world's oldest person.
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