World’s oldest person, Tomiko Itooka, dies at 116 in Japan
The world’s oldest person dies, Death of the world’s oldest person. Japan’s Tomiko Itooka died at the age of 116 at the Asia City Nursing Home in Hyogo Prefecture. Itooka became the world’s oldest person after Spain’s Maria Branyas died at the age of 117 in August 2024. Itooka was born in 1908. That year, the Ford Model T car was launched in the US. In September 2024, Itooka received the title of the world’s oldest person by Guinness World Records. Itooka is one of three siblings who saw two world wars, several epidemics, and many technological revolutions. She was married at the age of 20.
She has two boys and two daughters. Itooka lived alone following the death of her husband in 1979. Before her death, she was living with a son, a daughter, and five grandkids in a shared house. Until late September, 95,000 people were living in Japan aged 100 years or above. Of those, 88% are women. The oldest confirmed living person from Brazil is the Brazilian nun, Ina Canaburo Lucas. She was 116. She is sixteen days older than Ituka. She could be the oldest person in the world.
