supercentenarian
A supercentenarian, sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian, is a person who is 110 or older. This age is achieved by about one in 1,000 centenarians. Supercentenarians typically live a life free of significant age-related diseases until short ...
Nabi Tajima
was a Japanese supercentenarian
Miyako resided in
Nishi-ku, Yokohama
is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 93,027 and a density of 13,210 persons per km². The total area was 7.04 km².
Geography
Nishi Ward is locate ...
,
Kanagawa Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the List of Japanese prefectures by population, second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-dens ...
.
Biography
Miyako was born in
Wakayama Wakayama may refer to:
* Wakayama Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan
* Wakayama (city), the capital city of Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
* Wakayama Station, a train station in Wakayama, Wakayama
* Wakayama University, a national university in Wakayama, ...
in the
Kansai region
The or the lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshū. The region includes the prefectures of Nara, Wakayama, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyōgo and Shiga, often also Mie, sometimes Fukui, Tokushima and Tottori. The metropol ...
of
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
on 2 May 1901. She credited eating eel, drinking red wine, and never smoking for her longevity. Her husband, Shoji, was employed by the
Japanese National Railways
The , abbreviated JNR or , was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987.
Network Railways
As of June 1, 1949, the date of establishment of JNR, it operated of narrow gauge () railways in all 46 pre ...
, and his career allowed them to travel extensively.
Miyako's longevity record was confirmed following research and an evidence review, according to
Guinness World Records
''Guinness World Records'', known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as ''The Guinness Book of Records'' and in previous United States editions as ''The Guinness Book of World Records'', is a British reference book published annually, list ...
and its
Gerontology Research Group
The Gerontology Research Group (GRG) based in Los Angeles, California, US, is a global non-profit scientific organization of researchers in various fields of gerontology, primarily concerned with validating the ages of, recording and researching ...
. Also according to Guinness, she became the world's oldest surgery patient when her left leg was amputated on 8 May 2017, at the age of 116. This was her second leg amputation due to arteriosclerosis obliterans.
Miyako died on 22 July 2018 in
Yokohama
is the List of cities in Japan, second-largest city in Japan by population as well as by area, and the country's most populous Municipalities of Japan, municipality. It is the capital and most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a popu ...
, at the age of 117 years, 81 days. After her death,
Kane Tanaka
was a Japanese supercentenarian who, until her death at the age of , was the world's oldest verified living person, following the death of Chiyo Miyako on 22 July 2018. She is the oldest verified Japanese person and the second-oldest verifi ...
, born 2 January 1903 and living in
Fukuoka
is the List of Japanese cities by population, sixth-largest city in Japan and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city is built along the shores of Hakata Bay, and has been a center of international commerce since ancient times. ...
, Japan, became the world's oldest verified living person.
See also
*
Oldest people
The following are tables of the oldest people in the world in ordinal ranks. To avoid including false or unconfirmed claims of old age, names here are restricted to those people whose ages have been validated by an international body deali ...
*
List of Japanese supercentenarians
Japanese supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from Japan who have attained or surpassed the age of 110 years. , the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 263 Japanese supercentenarians, most o ...
*
List of the verified oldest people
These are lists of the 100 known verified oldest women and men sorted in descending order by age in years and days. The oldest person ever whose age has been independently verified is Jeanne Calment
Jeanne Louise Calment (; 21 February 18 ...