Tomiko Itooka, a 116-year-old girl from the western Japan metropolis of Ashiya, is in line to be declared the world’s oldest dwelling particular person by Guinness World Data, a nonprofit group that tracks supercentenarians stated Wednesday.
Itooka turned a candidate for the title after the earlier holder, Maria Branyas Morera, a 117-year-old from Olot in Catalonia, Spain, died Monday, based on the Gerontology Analysis Group.
File picture reveals Tomiko Itooka celebrating her 116th birthday on Could 23, 2024, in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture. (Photograph courtesy of the Ashiya municipal authorities)(Kyodo)
Born on Could 23, 1908, in Osaka, Itooka is the eldest of three siblings, the Ashiya metropolis authorities in Hyogo Prefecture stated. She married across the age of 20 and gave start to 2 daughters and two sons, the group stated.
Throughout the conflict, she took over from her husband to handle a textile manufacturing facility in South Korea and later, after her husband died in 1979, she lived alone in Nara Prefecture, western Japan, the place she turned concerned in mountaineering.
She has climbed Mt. Ontake twice, a mountain that straddles Nagano and Gifu prefectures in central Japan with a peak of about 3,000 meters, the nonprofit stated.
At age 100, she was capable of climb the stone steps of Ashiya Shrine with out a cane, however after coming into a nursing residence in 2019, she started requiring a wheelchair to get round.
Itooka has been Japan’s oldest particular person since December 2023.
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