World’s oldest person, 119, dies

THE oldest person in the world has died at the age of 119.

Kane Tanaka was born on January 2, 1903, in the Fukuoka region of Japan, the same year the Wright brothers flew for the first time and Marie Curie won a Nobel Prize. Mrs Tanaka was in good health until recently and enjoyed board games, maths problems, soda and chocolate.

She once ran a noodle shop and a rice cake store. She married Hideo Tanaka in 1922 and had four children, adopting a fifth. When the Guinness World Records named her the oldest person alive in 2019, she was asked the moment she was the most happy in her life. Her answer: ‘Now.’ She passed away on April 19.