OSAKA, Dec 13 (Japan Times) - Fusa Tatsumi, a 116-year-old recognized as Japan's oldest person, died of old age Tuesday, according to a city official of Kashiwara in Osaka Prefecture where she lived.
Born on April 25, 1907, Tatsumi had recently spent most of her days in bed at a nursing home in Kashiwara and often greeted the employees working there, the facility said, adding that she was well until Monday morning, eating her favorite bean-paste jelly.
She became the oldest living person in Japan in April last year following the death of a 119-year-old woman in Fukuoka, according to the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry. ...continue reading
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