Born January 2, 1903: Kane Tanaka
Photo: Takuto Kaneko / AP
Kane Tanaka has been listed by the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest living person in the world since March 2019.
Now the Japanese has broken another record in her home country.
Since Saturday, at 117 years and 261 days, the senior has been the "oldest known person in Japan."
The local media report.
Tanaka posed for a photo on Saturday with a certificate of congratulations from Fukuoka Prefecture Governor Hiroshi Ogawa.
"It's amazing that she can still eat and talk by herself," said her grandson, Eiji Tanaka, of the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper.
After all, he's already 60 years old.
If his grandmother turns 120 in three years, his wife will be 60th birthday.
They all wanted to celebrate that together.
Tanaka was born on January 2, 1903, the seventh of nine children.
In 1922 she married her husband Hideo Tanaka.
The couple had four children and adopted another.
When her husband and eldest son were serving in the military during World War II, she ran a noodle shop at home.
After her husband returned, they ran a rice bar together.
Relatives describe her as capable and strong-willed.
She only moved to a nursing home when she was very old.
The 117-year-old still likes to play Othello there.
The strategy game is one of the most popular board games in Japan.
Tanaka is said to be very good at it.
But she once mentioned the secrets of her biblical age: family, sleep and hope.
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