Japanese woman named world's oldest living person

Baku. 9 March. REPORT.AZ/ A 116-year-old Japanese woman Kane Tanaka has been named the world’s oldest living person by Guinness World Records, Report informs citing The Guardian. 

Tanaka was born 2 January 1903, the seventh of eight children. She married Hideo Tanaka in 1922, and they had four children and adopted another child. Now she lives in Fukuoka, in Japan’s south-west.

The previous oldest living person was another Japanese woman, Chiyo Miyako, who died in July at age 117.

A French woman, Jeanne Louise Calment, is recorded as the person who reached the oldest age, dying at 122, according to Guinness World Records.