He died the world's oldest person at 114
Yone Minagawa, the oldest woman in the world, died at 114 years old in a nursing home in Fukuoka Prefecture, western Japan, reported Kyodo news agency.
The old woman died of old age, according to Kyodo, in the nursing Fukuchi, the same town where he was born on January 4, 1893.
In May, Fukuchi town asked the internet to Guinness World Records handed a certificate of recognition Minagawa, Kyodo said.
After she was widowed very young, Minagawa raised her five children by selling flowers and vegetables in a mining town.
He is survived by a daughter, six grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Although he spent most of the time in bed, his mood was good and often joked with employees of asylum, as reported in January on the occasion of the celebration of its 114th birthday.
As told in the asylum, when organized musical activities Minagawa kept pace from his wheelchair and often gave candy to people who were around him.
In Japan, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the number of centenarians is 28,395 people, 24,245 of them women.
Just living in Japan also the world's oldest man, Tomoji Tanabe, 111 years.Yone Minagawa had been proclaimed the world's oldest person by the International Committee of supercentenarians (ICS acronym in English) after the death on Jan. 28 of the American Emma Faust Tillman, who died in Hartford (Connecticut) to 114 years.
