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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Yuri Kageyama

Tomiko Itooka: World’s oldest person who climbed Japan’s Mount Ontake twice dies at 116

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116.

Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies, said Itooka died on 29 Dec at a care home in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, central Japan.

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