Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was believed to be the oldest person in the world, has died at the age of 116. She was born in 1908 and lived through many historical events, including World War I and World War II.
Tomiko Itooka, a Japan ese woman born before the start of World War I and the sinking of the Titanic and who was believed to be the oldest person in the world, has died at a nursing home in Ashiya, Japan . She was 116. In a statement released on Saturday, the mayor of Ashiya said Itooka passed away last Sunday. He did not give a cause, but local news media reports said she died peacefully of complications related to old age.“I offer my deepest condolences,” said Mayor Ryosuke Takashima.
“Ms Itooka gave us great courage and hope throughout her long life. I would like to express my gratitude once again.”declared Itooka the oldest living person in September after the death of Maria Branyas Morera of Spain at age 117. Itooka was born Tomiko Yano on May 23, 1908, in the city of Osaka, one of three children in a family that ran a clothing store. At that time, her country was a rising imperial power that had just defeated tsarist Russia in war and was embarking on expansion into mainland Asia.In the year of her birth, Japan signed an agreement with president Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary of state that averted conflict with the United States in exchange for Washington recognising Japan’s annexation of the Korean Peninsula. During her lifetime, her nation emerged as an Asian colonial empire, fell in fiery defeat in 1945 and rose again as an industrial giant and peaceful democracy. Growing up in prewar Japan, she played volleyball in high school before marrying the owner of a textile company, Kenji Itooka, with whom she had two daughters and two sons. During World War II, she stayed in Japan to run the business while her husband went to Korea, then a Japanese colony, to oversee a factory there. “She single-handedly managed a Japanese office and raised her children during this period,” according to the Gerontology Research Group, which keeps a database of the world’s oldest people.In 1979, her husband died after 51 years of marriag
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