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The Japanese tend to work well into old age. The Japanese are often credited with food rich in fish and fresh Pacific air for being healthy in old age. And now a Japanese woman has broken all long-lasting Japanese records.
Kana Tanaka, born on January 2, 1903, with her Biblical age, has been listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest living person in the world since March 2019. Now she has also broken the Japanese age record. The elderly woman, who lives in a retirement home in southwest Fukuoka, surpasses previous record holder Nabi Tajima at 117 years and 261 days. She died in 2018 at the age of 117 years and 260 days.
Japanese is a supercentennial, as a person who has turned 110 or older is called in English. On Saturday, she posed for a photo with two fingers extended in a peace sign and a congratulatory certificate from the governor of Fukuoka. “It’s amazing that he can still eat and talk by himself now,” his 60-year-old grandson, Eiji Tanaka, told the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper. When she turned 120 in three years, they would celebrate his wife’s 60th birthday together.
Family, dream and hope for a long life.
Tanaka married young, had four children, and adopted another. When her husband and older son were serving in the military during World War II, she ran a noodle shop at home. Family members describe her as capable and strong-willed. After the war, she ran a rice cake business, from which she retired at the age of 63.
The 117-year-old man was hardly ill until old age. When he was 103 years old, he was diagnosed with colon cancer, which he managed to overcome after surgery. As a secret of his longevity, he gives the family, dream and hope. He once said that he had no wish to die. (kes)
