Nabi Tajima, 117, died in a hospital on Saturday in Kikai.Tajima stayed at a nursing home in recent years. She was in hospital about a month ago. "She passed away as if falling asleep. As she had been a hard worker, I want to tell her to 'rest well', "Tajima's 65-year-old grandson Hiroyuki said.
Tajima was born on Aug. 4, 1900. The new oldest person is another Japanese woman, Chiyo Miyako, according to the U.S.-based Research Group.Miyako, 116, was born on May 2, 1901. Determining the title of the world's oldest can be a bit difficult.An Indonesian man known as Sodimejo died last May without ever gaining the moniker, despite a government ID card listing Sodimejo's date of birth as Dec. 31, 1870.
Indonesia didn't start recording birth dates until decades later. A researcher Jan Vijg was among the non-believers. Vijg, a professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, compared the claim to someone saying he had met an extraterrestrial. "I would probably listen politely but not believe a word of it," Vijg said.
Tajima, who became the world's oldest known person with the death of Jamaican Violet Brown on Sept. 15,seems to have paperwork on her side. She was born on Aug. 4, 1900, in Araki, then known as Wan Village, in Kikaijima Island. She raised seven sons and two daughters,and as of 2017 had more than 160 descendants, including great-great-great-grandchildren, according to the Gerontology Research Group. Tajima claimed her secret to longevity was eating delicious food and getting plenty of sleep. She enjoyed hand-dancing to the music of a shamisen, a traditional Japanese musical instrument.
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