{"id":203085,"date":"2025-01-04T16:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T22:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/worlds-oldest-person-japanese-woman-tomiko-itooka-dies-at-116"},"modified":"2025-01-04T16:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T22:02:24","slug":"worlds-oldest-person-japanese-woman-tomiko-itooka-dies-at-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/worlds-oldest-person-japanese-woman-tomiko-itooka-dies-at-116","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s oldest person, Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka, dies at 116"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-oldest-person-japanese-woman-tomiko-itooka-dies-at-116.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world\u2019s oldest person according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/30\/travel\/new-zealand-world-record-haka-intl-hnk\/index.html\">Guinness World Records,<\/a> has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116.<\/p>\n<p>Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies, said Itooka died on December 29 at a care home in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, central Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Itooka, who loved bananas and a yogurt-flavored Japanese drink called Calpis, was born on May 23, 1908. She became the oldest person last year following the death of 117-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/20\/europe\/maria-branyas-death-scli-intl\/index.html\">Maria Branyas<\/a>, according to the Gerontology Research Group.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/04\/asia\/tomiko-itooka-death-japan-intl\/index.html#:~:text=According\">https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/04\/asia\/tomiko-itooka-death-...=According<\/a> to the Gerontology Research Group, the world's oldest person,born target= --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world\u2019s 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 December 29 at a care home in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, central Japan. Itooka, who loved [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":695,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/695"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}