List of Japanese supercentenarians
Japanese supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from Japan who have attained or surpassed the age of 110 years. , the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 263 Japanese supercentenarians, most of them women. According to them the oldest verified Japanese and Asian person ever is Kane Tanaka (1903–2022), who lived to age , making her the second oldest person ever as well. Japan was also home to the world's oldest man ever, Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013), who lived to age . 100 oldest known Japanese. Biographies. Yukichi Chuganji. Yukichi Chuganji (中願寺 雄吉; "Chūganji Yūkichi , 23 March 1889 – 28 September 2003) was a Japanese silkworm breeder, instructor in the agricultural specialty, bank employee and community welfare officer who lived for 114 years and 189 days. At the time of his death, he was the oldest Japanese man ever and even the world's oldest living person. Chuganji did not like to eat vegetables but liked beef, pork and chicken, and daily ate toffee and drank a glass of milk and the occasional apple juice and only drank alcohol in moderation, which he believed as the secrets to a long life. During the last years of 	List of Japanese supercentenarians
15590646	his life, he had failing eye sight and was bedridden. He died of natural causes on the evening of Sunday 28 September 2003, after being served a glass of apple juice by his 74-year-old daughter who was his only living child (as he outlived all his 4 sons). Besides 5 children, Chuganji also had 7 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Denzo Ishizaki. was an elementary school teacher and town assembly member in his hometown Kansago, Ibaraki Prefecture. At the time of his death, Ishizaki had been the world's oldest living man for almost 18 weeks, as well 	List of Japanese supercentenarians
15590647	as the 9th oldest living person in the world. He died of multiple organ failure on 29 April 1999 at age 112 years and 191 days, the oldest Japanese man ever (until October 2001, when his record was broken by Yukichi Chuganji). However, Ishizaki claimed to be two years older, asserting that his birth register had been delayed by two years". Nabi Tajima. succeeded Violet Brown as the world's oldest person for 217 days after Brown's death on 16 September 2017. She was the last person verified as having been born in the 19th century. Tajima was born  and died on the small island of Kikaijima, about halfway between Okinawa and the main Japanese islands. Her husband, Tominishi Tajima (田島 富二子), died at the age of 93 in 1991. She had nine children, seven sons and two daughters, and in September 2017 she was reported to have had around 160 descendants, including great-great-great-grandchildren. She stated that her longevity was due to sleeping soundly and eating delicious food. Guinness World Records was planning to certify Tajima as the world's oldest person, but she died at a nursing home in Kikai shortly before they could do  so. She died at age 117 years and 260 days and held the title of oldest Japanese person ever until Kane Tanaka surpassed Tajima's final age on 19 September 2020. Masazō Nonaka. had been, at the time of his death, Japan's oldest living man since October 2016, and the world's oldest living man for 1 year, since January 2018. Nonaka was also the oldest person ever born in Hokkaido. He had two brothers and three sisters; Nonaka married Hatsuno Nonaka in 1931. They had five children, of whom three were living as of his death. He ran  the family "onsen", which opened in 1905. He spent most of his later years in a wheelchair, crediting his longevity to eating sweets and relaxing in the hot springs. Nonaka died at home of natural causes at 1:30 am on 20 January 2019, aged 113 years and 179 days.