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...DIED. KAMATO HONGO, 116, believed to be the world's oldest person, who credited her longevity to "not moping around"; in Kagoshima, Japan. Hongo was born on Tokunoshima, a small island in the southern Amami Islands, an area known for its record-breaking centenarians. The oldest Japanese on record, who died at the age of 120 in 1986, was also from Tokunoshima. With Hongo's death, the distinction goes to Mitoyo Kawate, a 114-year-old woman in Hiroshima. Hongo had seven children, 27 grandchildren, 57 great-grandchildren and 11 great-great-grandchildren. She practiced teodori, a type of slow...
...BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED. KAMATO HONGO, at 115 the world's oldest person; in Kyushu, Japan. Kyushu is also home to the world's oldest man, 113-year-old Yukichi Chuganji. While Japan's long life expectancy is a point of national pride, the country's dominance of global old-age records has come to reflect the looming economic and social problems associated with its aging population...
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