Tomiko Itooka, the world's oldest living person, has passed away at the phenomenal age of 116. Recognized by Guinness World Records, Itooka died in a care home in Ashiya, Japan, local officials ...

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116.

A Japanese woman, Tomiko Itooka, globally recognised as world’s oldest person, has died, aged 116. Ashiya, the city where she lived, announced her death on Saturday. The southern city’s mayor ...

TOKYO — Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116. Yoshitsugu Nagata ...

Ashiya City via AP, File Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116.

At the age of 100, she walked up the lengthy stone steps of Japan’s Ashiya Shrine without using a cane, said the group, which claims to have the world’s “largest supercentenarian database”.

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman born before the start of World War I and the sinking of the Titanic who was believed to be the oldest person in the world, died at a nursing home in Ashiya, Japan ...