The world’s oldest person, a Japanese woman who counted eating well and getting plenty of sleep as the secret of her longevity, died on Monday at age 114, a news report said.
Yone Minagawa, who lived in a nursing home but was still sprightly late in life, died “of old age” on Monday evening, Kyodo News reported.
There was no immediate answer to a telephone call placed late on Monday to city hall in her mountainous hometown of Fukuchi in southern Fukuoka prefecture.
Born on January 4 1893, Minagawa blew out the candles on her own birthday cake earlier this year.
She was already in her 50s when Japan surrendered in World War II, starting a new era for her country.
Widowed at an early age, she reportedly raised her five children by selling flowers and vegetables in a coal mining town. — AFP