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Lee Bullen

Guinness Announces Death Of World’s Oldest Person, 119

Kane Tanaka, 119, certified by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living person, died at a hospital here on 19th April, 2022, in Japan. (Zenger)

Guinness World Records has announced that the world’s oldest person, Japanese woman Kane Tanaka, has died aged 119.

Confirmed as the oldest woman and oldest living person in 2019, Tanaka passed away on April 19 in a hospital in Fukuokain  southern Japan.

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