A 116-year-old Japanese woman who loves playing the board game Othello has been honoured as the world’s oldest living person by Guinness World Records.
The global authority on records officially recognised Kane Tanaka in a ceremony at the nursing home where she lives in Fukuoka, in Japan’s southwest.
Her family and the mayor were present to celebrate.
Tanaka was born January 2, 1903, the seventh of eight children. She married Hideo Tanaka in 1922, and they had four children and adopted a fifth.
She is usually up by 6am and enjoys studying mathematics.
The previous oldest living person was another Japanese woman, Chiyo Miyako, who died in July at the age of 117. The oldest person prior to that was also Japanese.
Tanaka has a way to go before she is the oldest person ever, an achievement of a French woman, Jeanne Louise Calment, who lived to 122 years, according to Guinness World Records.
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