Oldest Japanese woman dies at 116

Japan’s oldest woman died today at the age of 116, officials said in the Japanese city where the woman who survived two world wars died.

Fusa Tatsumi, born in 1907, raised three children with her farmer husband near Osaka, western Japan. Local broadcaster MBS broadcast footage of Japan’s oldest resident sitting in a wheelchair on her last birthday in April last year.

“Tatsumi died today at the age of 116,” a council member in Osaka’s Kashiwara city confirmed to AFP. “Ms. Fusa Tatsumi was in good health for her age,” Osaka Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura wrote on social media X, recalling his presence at a celebration in her honor last September.

Japan is the second country after Monaco with the largest number of centenarians, namely more than 47 thousand. Fusa Tatsumi became the oldest resident after Kane Tanaka died last year at the age of 119. In April 2022, Kane Tanaka was recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as a “supercentenarian.” Her age at death was 119 years 107 days, corresponding to 43,572 days. Currently, this “title” belongs to the US-born Spaniard Maria Branias, who will turn 117 years old on March 4, 2024.

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