The oldest person in the world has died in Japan: what Tomiko Itooka, who survived two world wars, looked like

At the age of 116, Japanese pensioner Tomiko Itooka, who in August 2024 entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's oldest person, passed away. Her life ended in a nursing home in Ashiya, where she had been living recently.

According to the authorities, the record holder died of natural causes, BBC reports. Honoring the memory of the Japanese woman, Mayor Ryosuke Takashima said that with her long life, she gave everyone around her "courage and hope for the best."

Tomiko Itooka was born on May 23, 1908, in Osaka, Japan. She was the oldest child in the family and had three younger siblings. Throughout her life, the record holder was a very active person, so she twice conquered the top of Mount Ontake, which is 3,067 meters high.

At the age of 20, Tomiko Itooka married her chosen one and had four children with him. During the Second World War, she managed the office of her beloved's textile factory, who unfortunately died in 1979.

It's worth noting that even in her older age, the record holder did not stop leading an active lifestyle. At 80, the long-lived woman made a pilgrimage trip to 33 Buddhist temples along the Saigoku Kannon route several times. At the age of 100, she was able to climb the stone stairs of a religious building in Ashiya without a cane.

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